Astring is a sequence ofcharacters. Sometimes we need to access one character in the string. The Java String functioncharAt() returns the character at a given position in a string, where positions start at0.

Here is an example. First, we create a string in Java:

Strings="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";

The string value is this entire sentence:The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The variables refers to the string. We use this variable to invoke String methods on the string.

Next, we invoke thecharAt() method on the string variables, passing the parameter4. This function returns thechar value at position 4. Since string indexes start at0, the function returns characterq. Note that a space is a character too. The code assigns the return valueq to thechar variablec:

charc=s.charAt(4);

Finally we outputc:

System.out.println(c);// q

Here is a complete program:

publicclassExample{publicstaticvoidmain(String[]args){Strings="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";charc=s.charAt(4);System.out.println(c);// q}}

Execute the program to see the outputq in the terminal.

Note thats.charAt(0) returns the first character in the string:T.

Try thecharAt() String function to retrieve other characters in the string.

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