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Get the code for a character (letter, number, or symbol) from a place in a text string.
"".charCodeAt(0)Like the position of a character in the an alphabet, or the traditional order of characters in a language, characters are assigned a code in a character set when used with computers. If a character set used only the 5 characters of “ABCDE”, then ‘A’, as the first character, would have a character code of 0 and ‘D’ would have a charcter code of 3.
You can find the code of a character in a text string by selecting it from it’s position in a string.
Parameters
- index: the number for the position in the text string to return a character code for.
Returns
- a number that is the code in the character set for the selected position in the text string.
Example
Find the character code for the character at position 6 in a string.
let sentence = "Super space ship"
let myCharCode = sentence.charCodeAt(6)