is there a way to measure time elapsed using a c++ program?

[cpplover]

I went through this forum and got to know that the time() does this. But, I'm not quite sure I understand how to use this function.
Here is an outline of the code that I have so far

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

int main(){
     clock_t start = clock();
//code here
     clock_t ends = clock();
     cout << "Running Time : " << (double) (ends - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << endl;

     return 0;
}

#

This program always tends to return clock seconds as 0. I'm not sure what the issue is

[LB]

There is no issue - code runs really fast, and most likely it is giving you zero because it runs in less than a second.

[cpplover]

Thanks a lot .I wanted to measure the time for various sorting algorithms. I'm going to run this for each one and post my observations.

[unixbased]

hey look at this just do some adjustments..


/* difftime example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctime>
#include <stdlib.h>


int main ()
{


time_t start,end;
char szInput [256];
double dif;

time (&start);
printf ("Please, enter your name: ");
gets (szInput);
time (&end);
dif = difftime (end,start);
printf ("Hi %s.\n", szInput);
printf ("It took you %.2lf seconds to type your name.\n", dif );

return 0;
}

//printf does the same as cout here and just adject the code to look like more of the c++ you know..not my code