Java: Subtract '0' from char to get an int… why does this work?

Question

This works fine:

int foo = bar.charAt(1) - \'0\';

Yet this doesn\'t - because bar.charAt(x) returns a char:

int foo = bar.c         


        

Answer 1

I will echo what @Mark Peters has said above in case people overlook his comment.

As I quote: " Don't make the mistake of thinking that '0' == 0. In reality, '0' == 48 "