Sometimes, we want to get a substring before a character with JavaScript.
In this article, we’ll look at how to get a substring before a character with JavaScript.
How to get a substring before a character with JavaScript?
To get a substring before a character with JavaScript, we can use the string’s split method.
For instance, we write:
const string = "foo-bar-baz"
const [foo] = string.split('-')
console.log(foo)
to call string.split with '-‘ to split the string by the dashes into a string array.
Then we get the word before the first dash with destructuring and assign it to foo.
Therefore, foo is 'foo'.
Conclusion
To get a substring before a character with JavaScript, we can use the string’s split method.
