Program to determine users age, using cin.get

[AnrichVS]

Good afternoon fellow programmers :)

I have recently started a IT degree, but I have been programming for years. Never programmed in C++ though.

What the program must do: Get user input for current date (in format dd/mm/yyyy) and get user input for his/her birth-date in the same format. Then use cin.get to read the numbers, and ignore the forward slashes. After that the person's age must be determined.

My problem is, once I read each character of the date, I can't figure out how to add these chars together to make 3 integers. One for the day, one for the month and one for the year.

Can anyone please assist me with this?

Thank you very much :)

[LB]

For the first two numbers, you can use std::getline with '/' being the character to stop at, and for the last it would of course be '\n'. You can hen use stringstreams to convert the std::strings to integral types.

You should also check out the time and date library introduced to C++11 (the latest language standard that came out in 2011):
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono

[AnrichVS]

Thank you very much for the reply, I feel like a total idiot now, so straight forward...

Here is what I have done now:

To get the day:
getline(cin, sDay, '/');

To convert the day to integer:
iCurrentDay = atoi(sDay.c_str());

I did this for the month and year as well. After getting all the values, I then calculate the age.

How would one go about doing this with cin.get though? Since the characters are then separate, and I can't seem to get them to append into a single integer for example an integer for day. If I say myInteger = myChar1 + myChar2, the ASCII values are added together...

[3qX21hU5]

#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string stringNumber("100");
    int intNumber;
    
    // Attaches stringNumber to the stringstream;
    stringstream ss(stringNumber);
    
    // Writes stringNumber into integer form and stores in intNumber
    ss >> intNumber;

    cout << intNumber + 100 << endl;
}

EDIT:

Here is somethign personalized towards your question, feel free to rework it and make it do exactly what you want :) Hope it helps a bit.

#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string date;
    cout << "Enter your birthdate in MM/DD/YYYY format: ";
    cin >> date;

    // Holds the "/" in the date format.
    char temp;
    int month;
    int day;
    int year;

    // Attaches the date to the stream
    stringstream ss(date);

    // Writes the date into each of its respective variables.
    // The temp in there is to hold the "/" that we don't want.
    ss >> month >> temp >> day >> temp >> year;

    cout << "Month: " << month << endl;
    cout << "Day: " << day << endl;
    cout << "Year: " << year << endl;
}