How to get first character of string?

Question

I have a string, and I need to get its first character.

var x = 'somestring'
alert(x[0]); //in ie7 returns undefined

How can I fix my code?

Answer 1

Hello Syom, try this:

x.substring(0,1)

Answer 2

What you want is charAt.

var x = 'some string';
alert(x.charAt(0)); // alerts 's'

Answer 3

In JavaScript you can do this:

alert(x.substring(0,1));

Answer 4

var x = "somestring"
alert(x.charAt(0));

The charAt() method allows you to specify the position of the character you want.

What you were trying to do is get the character at the position of an array "x", which is not defined as X is not an array.