Way to get number of digits in an int?

Another string approach. Short and sweet - for any integer n.

int length = ("" + n).length();

I see people using String libraries or even using the Integer class. Nothing wrong with that but the algorithm for getting the number of digits is not that complicated. I am using a long in this example but it works just as fine with an int.

 private static int getLength(long num) {

    int count = 1;

    while (num >= 10) {
        num = num / 10;
        count++;
    }

    return count;
}

no String API, no utils, no type conversion, just pure java iteration ->

public static int getNumberOfDigits(int input) {
    int numOfDigits = 1;
    int base = 1;
    while (input >= base * 10) {
        base = base * 10;
        numOfDigits++;
    }
    return numOfDigits;
 }

You can go long for bigger values if you please.

I wrote this function after looking Integer.java source code.

private static int stringSize(int x) {
    final int[] sizeTable = {9, 99, 999, 9_999, 99_999, 999_999, 9_999_999,
            99_999_999, 999_999_999, Integer.MAX_VALUE};
    for (int i = 0; ; ++i) {
        if (x <= sizeTable[i]) {
            return i + 1;
        }
    }
}

One of the efficient ways to count the number of digits in an int variable would be to define a method digitsCounter with a required number of conditional statements.
The approach is simple, we will be checking for each range in which a n digit number can lie:
0 : 9 are Single digit numbers
10 : 99 are Double digit numbers
100 : 999 are Triple digit numbers and so on...

    static int digitsCounter(int N)
    {   // N = Math.abs(N); // if `N` is -ve
        if (0 <= N && N <= 9) return 1;
        if (10 <= N && N <= 99) return 2;
        if (100 <= N && N <= 999) return 3;
        if (1000 <= N && N <= 9999) return 4;
        if (10000 <= N && N <= 99999) return 5;
        if (100000 <= N && N <= 999999) return 6;
        if (1000000 <= N && N <= 9999999) return 7;
        if (10000000 <= N && N <= 99999999) return 8;
        if (100000000 <= N && N <= 999999999) return 9;
        return 10;
    }

A cleaner way to do this is to remove the check for the lower limits as it won't be required if we proceed in a sequential manner.

    static int digitsCounter(int N)
    {
        N = N < 0 ? -N : N;
        if (N <= 9) return 1;
        if (N <= 99) return 2;
        if (N <= 999) return 3;
        if (N <= 9999) return 4;
        if (N <= 99999) return 5;
        if (N <= 999999) return 6;
        if (N <= 9999999) return 7;
        if (N <= 99999999) return 8;
        if (N <= 999999999) return 9;
        return 10; // Max possible digits in an 'int'
    }

Ideally, an integer divided by 10 multiple times will return the number of digits as long as the integer is not zero. As such a simple method to do so can be created as below.

public static int getNumberOfDigits(int number) {
    int numberOfDigits = 0;                
    while(number != 0) {
        number /= 10;
        numberOfDigits++;
    }
    
    return numberOfDigits;
}

It depends on what you mean by "neat". I think the following code is fairly neat, and it runs fast.

It is based on Marian's answer, extended to work with all long values and rendered using the ? : operator.

private static long[] DIGITS = { 1l,
                                 10l,
                                 100l,
                                 1000l,
                                 10000l,
                                 100000l,
                                 1000000l,
                                 10000000l,
                                 100000000l,
                                 1000000000l,
                                 10000000000l,
                                 100000000000l,
                                 1000000000000l,
                                 10000000000000l,
                                 100000000000000l,
                                 1000000000000000l,
                                 10000000000000000l,
                                 100000000000000000l,
                                 1000000000000000000l };

public static int numberOfDigits(final long n)
{
    return n == Long.MIN_VALUE ? 19 : n < 0l ? numberOfDigits(-n) :
            n < DIGITS[8] ? // 1-8
              n < DIGITS[4] ? // 1-4
                n < DIGITS[2] ? // 1-2
                  n < DIGITS[1] ? 1 : 2 : // 1-2
                        n < DIGITS[3] ? 3 : 4 : // 3-4
                      n < DIGITS[6] ? // 5-8
                        n < DIGITS[5] ? 5 : 6 : // 5-6
                      n < DIGITS[7] ? 7 : 8 : // 7-8
            n < DIGITS[16] ? // 9-16
              n < DIGITS[12] ? // 9-12
                n < DIGITS[10] ? // 9-10
                  n < DIGITS[9] ? 9 : 10 : // 9-10
                        n < DIGITS[11] ? 11 : 12 : // 11-12
                      n < DIGITS[14] ? // 13-16
                        n < DIGITS[13] ? 13 : 14 : // 13-14
                      n < DIGITS[15] ? 15 : 16 : // 15-16
            n < DIGITS[17] ? 17 :  // 17-19
            n < DIGITS[18] ? 18 :
            19;
}