accessing chars in a string

How do I access specific character positions in a scalar string? In case
it makes any difference, I specifically want to test the zeroth
character. Something like the following.

my $str = "abc";
if ($str[0] == '#')
{
	do something...
}

Thank you in advance!
Chuck

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