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How can I get the first three letters of a string in JQuery? [closed]

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How can I get the first three letters of a string in JQuery?

For example: Turn cat1234 to cat

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Shah Avatar asked Mar 04 '13 07:03

Shah


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2 Answers

No jQuery needed! Just use the substring method:

var name = "cat1234"  var variable2 = name.substring(0, 3); 
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X-Factor Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 13:11

X-Factor


Use .slice(start, end) with start and end values:

var str = 'cat1234';  document.body.innerHTML = str.slice(0, 3);

With javascript you can use a regular expression with .match() method to exclude the number and get the string value.

var str ='cat1234',      rg = /[a-zA-Z]+/g,      ns = str.match(rg);    document.body.innerHTML = ns[0];
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Jai Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 13:11

Jai