Date Help

[karichie]

Does someone have a quick code for converting strings to Dates in C++.

Example: What is the date:
User response: 12/05/14

Can someone tell me a way I can code this to recognize it as a date, and make it so that the date is sortable? Not referring to the system date, but a user input date.

Any help will be appreciated.

[LsDefect]

Are you trying to convert the input string to an actual date structure or...?

If you just need to take a date in string format and split it into ints, you can do something like this:

int month,
    day,
    year;

string input;
stringstream ss;

cout << "What is the date: ";

cin >> input;

for(int i = 0; i < input.length(); ++i)
     input[i] = input[i] == '/' ? ' ' : input[i];

ss << input;

ss >> month >> day >> year;

You'll just need stringstream:
#include <sstream>

[karichie]

Yes, I am trying to take the inputted string value, and make it into intergers. Please explain the

for(int i = 0; i < input.length(); ++i)
     input[i] = input[i] == '/' ? ' ' : input[i];

Trying to understand what is going on here. It looks simple enough that it may work for me.

[LsDefect]

This part goes through every character in the input string and replaces slashes with spaces.

I just used an inline IF statement; it's the same as:

for(int i = 0; i < input.length(); ++i)
{
     if(input[i] == '/')
          input[i] = ' ';
}

[karichie]

Gotcha!!

Thanks, will try this out!!