Availability
JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0, ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
string.charAt(n)Arguments
n
The index of the character that should be returned from
string.
Returns
The nth character of
string.
Description
String.charAt( ) returns the
nth character of the string
string. The first character of the string
is numbered 0. If n is not between 0 and
string.length-1, this method returns an
empty string. Note that JavaScript does not have a character data
type that is distinct from the string type, so the returned character
is a string of length 1.
See Also
String.charCodeAt( ), String.indexOf( ), String.lastIndexOf( )