charAt equivelant for Long?

[fixxxerkh]

i know how to use charAt for Strings, but I need to be able to identify an Integer by its first number, in other words I need to tell whether an int has either a 5 or a 1 as the first number for an if statement...any way to do this?

[pimpJ]

seems like there's a way to do it with just devision.
For example:
the long we're looking at is 502314

long num = 502314;
int i = 1;
while (num / i > 10)
   i*=10;
i = (int)(num/i);

now i should be the first digit of the long, in this case, 5.
I realize that's not quite as versatile as the charAt equivalent, but I think it should work. If not, you could always convert each digit into a char and store as a char array