getting info from strings...

[kyle11778]

i need help/suggestions on how to get month,day,year from an input of "12/31/2010"

this is part of my homework so dont tell me just get me in the right direction...

thanks for the help!

[R0mai]

Look into these links :
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/find/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/substr/
http://cplusplus.com/articles/numb_to_text/

[kyle11778]

what about this:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/strftime/

[kyle11778]

got it myself from this web page...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/308390/convert-a-string-to-a-date-in-c

used:
sscanf(test, "%d/%d/%d", &day, &month, &year);

thanks anyways...later

[curioustoknow]

Maybe you can use getline