how to get first value from the word entered in the input (only first letter)

Question

I know that this question is so noob . but I want to know that how to get the first letter from the entered word in an input text.

I don't know about it .but please guide me about that .

Answer 1

The native Javascript substr() method can do that:

var firstChar = $('#textbox').val().substr(0, 1);

The first argument is the character position to start from, the second is the length to take.

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