How to remove first & last characters of a String in Javascript

Question

I receive String with starting and ending double quotes like following `"help"` and I want to extract `help` from it. How can I do that in Javascript?

Karthik Divi · Accepted Answer

Using Javascript's `slice` method on Strings, you can remove the first & last characters like following

```javascript
console.log(foo.slice(1, -1));
```

Following is a full example

```javascript
let foo = '"help"';
console.log(foo.slice(1, -1));
```

### Output

```
help
```

You can try the code online here https://onecompiler.com/javascript/3vy56hwfq

How to remove first & last characters of a String in Javascript

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