Trying to get the 1st character from an int

Question

Hello all,
Ill try to make this as easy to explain as possible.
I want to get the 1st number of the int that the person enters
so for example: 100
then i want to get 1
200
then 2
and so on...
Here is the code so far. It works, but i just dont know where to get it from and i need it to be able system.println it.
Once again, thank you.
package bars;
public class Employee {
// class constants
// Data fields
private String custName;
private String custAddress;
private double rate;
private int custID;
private double steve;
public Employee(int id, String name, String adress, double ra) {
custName = name;
custAddress = adress;
rate = ra;
custID = id;
public String toString() {
return "Customer ID: "+ custID + "Customer Name : " + custName +
"Customer Adrress" + custAddress + "rate: $" + rate ;
public int getBalls(){
return custID;
public String getBallsy(){
return custAddress;
public double getRate(){
return rate;
the other one...
package bars;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
public class EmployeeApp {
//methods
private static int readInt (String prompt){
String numStr = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(prompt);
return Integer.parseInt(numStr);
private static double readDouble (String prompt){
String numStr = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(prompt);
return Double.parseDouble(numStr);
public static void main (String[] args){
//read and store the payroll data in an employee object
Vector programmers = new Vector();
for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
Employee programmer =
new Employee(
readInt("Enter Customer ID: "),
JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Name: " ),
JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Address: "),
readDouble ("Enter hourly rate: ")
int steve = programmer.getBalls();
int bob = steve;
programmers.add(programmer);
System.out.println("here: " + steve);
System.out.println(programmers.toString());

Answer 1

I am not sure what you want, but this method will return the left digig.
public int getLd(int n)
     if (n > 10) return(getLd(n/10));
          else       return(n);
}Noah