How to get an integer at a specified position in a string of integers?

Question

If I have a string like String myString = "12345" and I want to return the value at index [0]. How do I do this? I've tried for example int foo = myString.charAt(0) and get a weird value like 49?

Answer 1

Use Character.getNumericValue():

String myString = "12345";
int foo = Character.getNumericValue(myString.charAt(0));