Modulus and Hyphens

[mjyz]

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[keskiverto]

The question relates to your other thread: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/119278/

I presume that your number is an integral type. Consider this:

auto number{123456789};
std::cout << number % 1000 << '\n';
std::cout << number / 1000 << '\n';