JavaScript - check if string starts with

Question

I am trying to check if a string starts with the character: /

How can i accomplish this?

Answer 1

if(someString.indexOf('/') === 0) {
}

Answer 2

Characters of a string can be accessed through the subscript operator [].

if (string[0] == '/') {

}

[0] means the first character in the string as indexing is 0-based in JS. The above can also be done with regular expressions.