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ctime() and new line

geoff (4)
Hello,

I'm writing a small logging class and I want to date/time stamp each line of output. I'm using ctime() for this, but it adds a new line /n at the end. I need to stop it from doing that as it's making my log a complete mess.

It does this:

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| Wed Jun 02 19:01:41 2010
 | CORE_LAYER | Initialising Sub-Systems.


I need it to do this:

 
 
| Wed Jun 02 19:01:41 2010 | CORE_LAYER | Initialising Sub-Systems.


I've tried messily hacking it, but to no avail.

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void irisLogger::setLine(std::string sLine)
{
#ifdef _DEBUG
	time_t raw;
	time(&raw);

	std::ostringstream sTime;
	sTime << ctime(&raw);
	std::string sTimeS = sTime.str();

	size_t      end      = sTimeS.find_last_of("\\");
	sTimeS               = sTimeS.substr(end + 1);

	std::ostringstream sBuff;
	sBuff << "| " << sTimeS << " | " << sLine;

	logFile << sBuff.str() << std::endl;
#endif
}


That didn't work :). Does anybody know how I can do this correctly?

Thanks.
jsmith (5804)
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std::string t( ctime( &raw ) );
sTime << t.substr( 0, t.length() -1  );

Athar (4466)
You probably meant:

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size_t      end      = sTimeS.find_last_of('\n');
sTimeS               = sTimeS.substr(0,end);


Or since you already know that the last char is always a newline:
sTimeS = sTimeS.substr(0,sTimeS.length()-1);
geoff (4)
Yes, that works. Thanks guys. :)
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