Question

I want to read a specific character in a textfile, so I basically want a function where if I write function getLetter(3), it will return the third letter, can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

Normally you should at least show what you’ve tried in your question to get an answer on StackOverflow, but I’m feeling generous this morning.

Try this:

function getLetter(index) {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'my_text_file.txt',
        dataType: 'text',
        success: function(text) {
            var letter = text.substring(index, 1);
            // do something with letter here...
        }
    });
}