To find the length of a string in JavaScript, you can use the length property of the string object. This property returns the number of characters in the string.
Here’s an example of how you can use the length property:
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let str = 'Hello, World!'; let length = str.length; console.log(length); // Output: 13
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In the example above, the string 'Hello, World!' has a length of 13, because it contains 13 characters (including the space and exclamation mark).
You can also use the length property to access specific characters within a string. For example:
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let str = 'Hello, World!'; let firstChar = str[0]; let lastChar = str[str.length - 1]; console.log(firstChar); // Output: 'H' console.log(lastChar); // Output: '!'
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In the example above, we use the length property to access the first and last characters of the string. The first character is at index 0, and the last character is at index length - 1, because array indices in JavaScript start at 0.
Here are a few more things you might find helpful when working with strings in JavaScript:
- You can use the
+operator to concatenate (combine) two strings. For example:
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let greeting = 'Hello, '; let name = 'John'; let fullGreeting = greeting + name; console.log(fullGreeting); // Output: 'Hello, John'
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- You can use the
toUpperCase()andtoLowerCase()methods to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase, respectively. For example:
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let str = 'Hello, World!'; let upperCase = str.toUpperCase(); let lowerCase = str.toLowerCase(); console.log(upperCase); // Output: 'HELLO, WORLD!' console.log(lowerCase); // Output: 'hello, world!'
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- You can use the
indexOf()method to find the index of the first occurrence of a substring within a string. For example:
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let str = 'Hello, World!';
let index = str.indexOf('World');
console.log(index); // Output: 7
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- You can use the
substring()method to extract a substring from a string. It has two arguments: the start index and the end index (optional). For example:
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let str = 'Hello, World!'; let substring = str.substring(7, 12); console.log(substring); // Output: 'World'
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