I am extracting a character in a Javascript string with:
var first = str.charAt(0);
and I would like to check whether it is a letter. Strangely, it does not seem like such functionality exists in Javascript. At least I cannot find it.
How can I test this?
I don't believe there is a built-in function for that. But it's easy enough to write with a regex
function isLetter(str) {
return str.length === 1 && str.match(/[a-z]/i);
}