How do I remove the first digit of an integer?
My input is an integer (for example i = 123456789).
I then want to remove the first digit, so that i equals 23456789.
How do I remove the first digit of an integer?
My input is an integer (for example i = 123456789).
I then want to remove the first digit, so that i equals 23456789.
try this
n = n % (int) Math.pow(10, (int) Math.log10(n));
Here is one way to do it:
String
int
Code:
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int x = 123456789;
String x_str = Integer.toString(x);
int new_x = Integer.parseInt(x_str.substring(1));
System.out.println(new_x);
}
Output:
23456789
Note: This can be done in one line with
int x = 123456789;
int new_x = Integer.parseInt(Integer.toString(x).substring(1));
Edit:
To handle negative-case, check if number is positive or integer:
int new_x = Integer.parseInt(x > 0 ?
Integer.toString(x).substring(1) : Integer.toString(x).substring(2));
If you want to avoid the string conversion, you can find the high digit and subtract it.
public static void main(String[] args) {
int x = 123456789;
System.out.println("x = " + x);
int hi = x, n = 0;
while (hi > 9) {
hi /= 10;
++n;
}
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) hi *= 10;
x -= hi;
System.out.println("x with high digit removed = " + x);
}
Here's the one-line, purely numeric solution:
i %= (int) Math.pow(10, (int) Math.log10(i));
Alternate approach:
int stripLeading(int i) {
if(i > 0) {
return i - (int)Math.pow(10, (int)Math.log10(i));
} else if(i > 0) {
return i + (int)Math.pow(10, (int)Math.log(-i+1));
} else {
return 0;
}
}
I think I remember the string-free version of this … although I totally agree with @Christian as how I would do it…
NOTE: as @Darren Gilroy pointed out, one must consider negatives and zero spocially, and my function fails to do so.
Of course %
is a better solution also.
public static void main (String [] argv)
{
final int x = 123456789;
int newX = x;
/* How many digits are there? */
final double originalLog = Math.floor (Math.log10 (x));
/* Let's subtract 10 to that power until the number is smaller */
final int getRidOf = (int)Math.pow (10, originalLog);
while (originalLog == Math.floor (Math.log10 (newX)))
{ newX -= getRidOf; }
System.out.println (newX);
}
Poor profiling attempt:
Looping the above function without the println
for 20,000,000,000 repeats in a for
loop:
real 0m9.943s
user 0m9.890s
sys 0m0.028s
The same with Christian's far-easier-to-understand and perfectly functionable version, but for only 200,000,000 repeats (because I'm lazy and got tired of waiting):
real 0m18.581s
user 0m17.972s
sys 0m0.574s
So one might argue that constructing the String objects is probably slowing it down by roughly 200×, but that isn't a really finely-tuned profiling set-up.
If you want to go for simpler methods and without using String
, then here's my simple take:
int
by 10^n
. n
is the number of digits.For example
int i = 123456789;
int n = getDigitCount(i);
int r = Math.abs(i / (int)Math.pow(10,n)); //r stores result.
And you'd require this method:
int getDigitCount(int num)
{
int c = 0;
while(num > 0){
num/=10;
c++;
}
return c;
}