In the previous article, you have learned to remote last character of a string in JavaScript. If you are looking for remove last character from string, visit here. This tutorial describe you to how to remove first character of a string in JavaScript. You can choose any one of the following methods.

Method 1 – Using substring() function

Use the substring() function to remove the last character from a string in JavaScript. This function returns the part of the string between the start and end indexes, or to the end of the string. Example

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Method 2 – Using slice() function

Use the slice function to remove the last character from any string in JavaScript. This function extracts a part of any string and return as new string. When you can store in a variable. Example:

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Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned how to remove first character from a string using JavaScript. You can also read our next tutorial to trim white spaces from string.