Answers for "how to get characters before a specific character in javascript"

js get string before character

var str = "JavaScript is the programming language of the Web.";

// this will return string before the word programming
var result = str.split('programming')[0]; 
// result : "JavaScript is the ";

javascript get all characters before a certain one

// say you wanted to collect all the chars before a slash (/).

myString = "12345.67890";

newString = myString.substring(0, myString.indexOf('/'));

console.log(newString);

// returns "12345"