String Index

Indexing

Did you know that you can access individual characters in a string? To access an individual character, you can use the character's location in the string, called its index. Just put the index of the character inside square brackets (starting with [0] as the first character) immediately after the string. For example:

"James"[0];

Returns: "J"

or more commonly, you will see it like this, using a variable:

var name = "James";
name[0];

Returns: "J"

String Index

INSTRUCTOR NOTE:

Characters within a string are indexed starting from 0, where the first character is at position 0, to n-1, where the last character is at position n-1 (n represents the total number of characters within a string).

Characters in a String

What character will be printed to the JavaScript console after running the following lines of code.

var quote = "Stay awhile and listen!";
console.log(quote[6]);

a

w

!

h

SOLUTION:

w