How to get the Nth digit of an integer with bit-wise operations?

Question

Example. 123456, and we want the third from the right (\'4\') out.

The idea in practise is to access each digit seperately (ie. 6 5 4 3 2 1).

C/C++/C# preferred.

Answer 1

In C you could do something like the following, where n=0 would indicate the rightmost digit

char nthDigitFromRight(int x,int n)
{
    char str[20];
    sprintf(str,"%020d",x);
    return(str[19 - x]);
}

Change [19-x] to [20-x] if you want n=1 for rightmost digit.