ES6 - charCodeAt()

This method returns a number indicating the Unicode value of the character at the given index. Unicode code points range from 0 to 1,114,111. The first 128 Unicode code points are a direct match of the ASCII character encoding. charCodeAt()always returns a value that is less than 65,536.

Syntax

string.charCodeAt(index);

Argument Details

• index − An integer between 0 and 1 less than the length of the string; if unspecified, defaults to 0.

Return Value

Returns a number indicating the Unicode value of the character at the given index. It returns NaN if the given index is not between 0 and 1 less than the length of the string.

Example

var str = new String("This is string");
console.log("str.charAt(0) is:" + str.charCodeAt(0));
console.log("str.charAt(1) is:" + str.charCodeAt(1));
console.log("str.charAt(2) is:" + str.charCodeAt(2));
console.log("str.charAt(3) is:" + str.charCodeAt(3));
console.log("str.charAt(4) is:" + str.charCodeAt(4));
console.log("str.charAt(5) is:" + str.charCodeAt(5));

Output

str.charAt(0) is:84
str.charAt(1) is:104
str.charAt(2) is:105
str.charAt(3) is:115
str.charAt(4) is:32
str.charAt(5) is:105