Return first digit of an integer

Question

How in Java do you return the first digit of an integer.?

i.e.

345

Returns an int of 3.

Answer 1

Looking at the code supplied it seems a tad over complicating the whole thing, here is a simple solution...

int number = 4085;
int firstDigit = number;
while (firstDigit > 9)
{
      firstDigit = firstDigit / 10;
}
System.out.println("The First Digit is " + firstDigit);