Java: parse int value from a char

Question

I just want to know if there\'s a better solution to parse a number from a character in a string (assuming that we know that the character at index n is a number).

Answer 1

Try Character.getNumericValue(char).

String element = "el5";
int x = Character.getNumericValue(element.charAt(2));
System.out.println("x=" + x);

produces:

x=5

The nice thing about getNumericValue(char) is that it also works with strings like "el٥" and "el५" where ٥ and ५ are the digits 5 in Eastern Arabic and Hindi/Sanskrit respectively.