How to get the separate digits of an int number?

Question

I have numbers like 1100, 1002, 1022 etc. I would like to have the individual digits, for example for the first number 1100 I want to have 1, 1, 0, 0.

How can I get

Answer 1

if digit is meant to be a Character

String numstr = Integer.toString( 123 );
Pattern.compile( "" ).splitAsStream( numstr ).map(
  s -> s.charAt( 0 ) ).toArray( Character[]::new );  // [1, 2, 3]

and the following works correctly
numstr = "000123" gets [0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3]
numstr = "-123"    gets [-, 1, 2, 3]