[Martijn13]

Hello there!



I have the following problem:

I want to write a program that gets the time in the form hours:minutes via stdin, and then give output like this. The problem for me is: how do I split the input to two integers for hours and minutes?

I have been trying to find a solution for almost a hour. Every time I found code that didn't work for me, and that I didnt understand.

Please note: I'm just starting to learn C++. Please explain your answer extensively.

To add some information (can't find an edit button)

I have found solution using vectors, find_first_of and boost libaries. I just didn't understand.

[CTphpnwb]

Read up on sstream:
http://www.cplusplus...m/stringstream/

[jimblumberg]

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I have been trying to find a solution for almost a hour. Every time I found code that didn't work for me, and that I didnt understand.

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Please note: I'm just starting to learn C++.

Then I suggest you try to write your own solution. You will not learn anything by trying to "find" a solution. You learn programming by programming. So show us your best effort at solving this problem and we may be able to help point you in the right direction.


Jim

[Martijn13]

Well, Jim got me thinking. Eventually I found out about strncpy(). This is what I came up with:

int main()
{
    char time[5], hour[2];
    int hour_num;
    cout << "give time"<<endl;
    cin >> time;
    cout << " "<<endl;

    strncpy(hour,time,2);
    hour[2]='\0';
    cout << hour <<endl;

    hour_num = atoi(hour);

    cout << hour_num <<endl;

    return 0;
}

That returns the first two characters of time[]. Now I have another question: how do I get the last two characters of time[]? Or to be more general: how do I get any part of an array? I can't figure this out.

[CTphpnwb]

Arrays start at 0, so the first three elements of time would be time[0], time[1], and time[2].

[jimblumberg]

I suggest you start by studying the following links: Arrays, Character Sequences. I also suggest that instead of the C-string you use std::string. By using the string class you won't need to worry about not having enough size for your string, and you will have functions like substr() to help pick out a section of the string.

Jim