Question

For example, getting “5” in “256”. The closest I’ve gotten is Math.floor(256/10)), but that’ll still return the numbers in front. Is there any simple way to get what I want or would I have to make a big function for it? Also, for clarity: “n digit” would be defined. Example, getDigit(2,256) would return 5 (second digit)

Answer 1

Math.floor((256 / 10) % 10)

or more generally:

Math.floor(N / (Math.pow(10, n)) % 10)

where N is the number to be extracted, and n is the position of the digit. Note that this counts from 0 starting from the right (i.e., the least significant digit = 0), and doesn’t account for invalid values of n.