This example shows how to define a string then extract the character at a given position in that string. It does this using the String.charAt() method. Note that character positions are numbered from zero, not one. The first part uses a string variable whereas the second uses a string literal:
andrew@UBUNTU:~/Java$ cat prog37.java
public class prog37
{
public static void main (String args[])
{
String Andrews_name = "Andrew";
char first_letter = Andrews_name.charAt(0);
System.out.println
("1st letter of Andrew = " + first_letter);
char fourth_letter = "Andrew".charAt(3);
System.out.println
("4th letter of Andrew = " + fourth_letter);
}
}
andrew@UBUNTU:~/Java$ javac prog37.java
andrew@UBUNTU:~/Java$ java prog37
1st letter of Andrew = A
4th letter of Andrew = r
andrew@UBUNTU:~/Java$
