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2026

The String charAt() method

By Flavio Copes

Learn how the JavaScript charAt() method returns the character at a given index in a string, and why an out-of-range index gives you an empty string back.

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Return the character at the index i

Examples:

'Flavio'.charAt(0) //'F'
'Flavio'.charAt(1) //'l'
'Flavio'.charAt(2) //'a'

If you give an index that does not match the string, you get an empty string.

JavaScript does not have a “char” type, so a char is a string of length 1.

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