Strings are a sequence of zero or more characters written inside quotes used to represent text.

Strings may consist of letters, numbers, symbols, words, or sentences.

Strings are immutable, they cannot be changed.

Each character in a string has an index.

The first character will be index 0 the second character will be index 1 and so on.

There are two ways to access an individual character in a string.

charAt() method

const str1 = "abc"; string

str1.charAt(0); character at index 0 → "a"

str1.charAt(1); character at index 1 → "b"

str1.charAt(2); character at index 2 → "c"

str1.charAt(3); character at index 3 → "" index not found

Alternatively use at() or slice() methods

bracket notation []

const str2 = "abc"; string

str2[0]; character at index 0 → "a"

str2[1]; character at index 1 → "b"

str2[2]; character at index 2 → "c"

str2[3]; character at index 3 → undefined index not found

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Arrays are used to store multiple values in a single variable.

Each value is called an element, and each element has a numeric position in the array, known as its index.

Arrays are zero-indexed, meaning the first element is at index 0, the second at index 1, and so on.

Arrays can contain any data type, including numbers, strings, and objects.

const arr1 = [2, 4, 6]; array

arr1[0]; element at index 0 → 2

arr1[1]; element at index 1 → 4

arr1[2]; element at index 2 → 6

arr1[3]; element at index 3 → undefined index not found

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Numbers are used to represent both integer and floating-point values.

Numbers are most commonly expressed in literal forms like 255 or 3.14159 ↴

let num1 = 5; → number

let num2 = 2.5; → number

let num3 = num1 + num2;

console.log(num3); returns ↴

7.5 → number

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Count number of words in a string using ↴

split() method → splits a string into an array of substrings.

trim() method → removes whitespace from both ends of the string and returns a new string, without modifying the original string.

Regular Expression → patterns used to match character combinations in strings.

length property → set or return the number of elements in an array.

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trim() method removes whitespace from both ends of a string and returns a new string, without modifying the original string.

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split() method splits a string into an array of substrings based on a specified separator (delimiter). The original string is unchanged.

const str3 = "Hello"; → string

str3.split(""); returns ↴

["H", "e", "l", "l", "o"] → array

const str4 = "Hello World"; → string

str4.split(" "); returns ↴

["Hello", "World"] → array

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Regular expressions are patterns used to match character combinations in strings.

The Regular Expression /\s+/ matches one or more whitespace characters.

\s matches any whitespace character (spaces, tabs, line breaks).

+ quantifier indicates that one or more occurrences of the preceding element (whitespace in this case) should be matched.

As a result, this regex will match any sequence of whitespace characters, effectively splitting the string at each space.

This means that multiple spaces between words will not create empty entries in the resulting array.

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length property returns the number of elements in an array.

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Initialize a variable to hold the string to count number of words.

const string1 = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"; → user input

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Define a function countWords to count number of words in a string.

function countWords(str) {}

The function takes a string as input str and returns the number of words found in that string.

Trim whitespace from both ends of the string.

str.trim()

Split the string into an array of words.

The regular expression /\s+/ matches one or more whitespace characters.

.split(/\s+/) → array of words

Return the length of the array, which is the word count.

.length

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Call the function with ↴

countWords(string1);

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Count number of words in a string.