fastest way to access certain digit in long

[Hendra Kurniawan]

lets say I have :

long number=1234567890;

and I want to get the fourth digit from behind (in this case, the number would be 7). What's the fastest way to get this number? Is there any faster way than this?

int digit=(number/1000)%10;

[Mike Simmons]

I think that's the fastest way, right there.

[Winston Gutkowski]

Hendra Kurniawan wrote:Is there any faster way than this?

Not unless you want to get really geeky

And I'd advise strongly against it.

Winston

[Campbell Ritchie]

It is much quicker if you want to access the i-th bit, or a digit in hexadecimal, which you can do with the << & and >> operators.