[removed] Have we always been able to index into a string like it's an array?

Question

I\'ve always thought that if you want to access the nth character in a string called str, then you have to do something like str.charAt(n). Today I was

Answer 1

As long as I can remember, but:

Array-like character access [...] is not part of ECMAScript 3. It is a JavaScript and ECMAScript 5 feature.

(...and not supported in all browsers) See here.