How to get first letter from string using jquery [duplicate]

Question

I am poor knowledge in jquery. I have mentioned the script below

var header = $('.time'+col).text(); alert(header); 

I got string as "109:00AM" from that how to get first letter such as 1. Could you please help me.

Answer 1

Try with charAt(0) like

var header = $('.time'+col).text(); alert(header.charAt(0)); 

You can also use substring like

alert(header.substring(1)); 

And as @Jai said you can use slice also like

alert(header.slice(0,1));