Parsing date and outputting as date month and year

[Jarob22]

Hi,

I'm very new to c++ and have the following small program:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string dob;
    cout << "Type your name of birth. Format: ddmmyyyy" << endl;
    cin >> dob;
    cout << "month of birth: " + dob[2] + dob[3] << endl;
    cout << "date of birth: " + dob[0] + dob[1] << endl;
    cout << "year of birth: " + dob[4] + dob[5] + dob[6] + dob[7] << endl;
}

But when I give something like 19031991 it doesn't work, and with that particular input just outputs "zPLR" :S why is this?...

Thanks,

Jarob22

[Moschops]

dob[2] is a char.

You cannot use the + operator to concatenate "month of birth: " and a char.

You don't actually need to concatenate them; just output the char separately with the << operator.

[Jarob22]

Woo, ok thanks that works :)