[emerald_gal]

How can we take a string as input from the user and read different parts of it into variables. For example:
12:34:20
is to be read into hour=12, minutes=34 and seconds=20.

[ghst]

The string class has a find function which finds certain characters in a string and returns the index of where it's located in the string. Or you could just write your own function that iterates through a string looking for ':'

emerald_gal, on 22 Jan, 2009 - 03:41 AM, said:

How can we take a string as input from the user and read different parts of it into variables. For example:
12:34:20
is to be read into hour=12, minutes=34 and seconds=20.

[epper]

For reading strings I believe its called indexOf('some char') which returns an in at position. Then you could use the .substr(from this point, to another point) to divide up into three separate strings. Then parse the strings if you want them as ints or output or whatever you want.

[Bench]

Is this C or C++? The methods for splitting strings and converting to numbers are totally different in both languages.

This recent thread might give you a couple of ideas - http://www.dreaminco...h...c=81224&hl=

This post has been edited by Bench: 22 January 2009 - 01:34 PM

[emerald_gal]

Its actually C++, I know i can do this with strtok function, but i am not sure about the arguments, how will they change in the first, second and third sunsequent calls to the function.

[Bench]

strtok is a C function - I wouldn't advise using it. if you're writing C++, then use the C++ libraries.

All you need is 3 simple tools....
std::istringstream tokeniser("12:34:20"); - a 'buffer' to hold your raw, un-parsed data of "12:34:20" and do some tokenising.

std::string token; - a plain simple string to hold individual tokens after they've been separated/'tokenised' out of the buffer

int num; - an int to hold the converted number token.


you can grab a token from the buffer in C++ with just 1 line

std::getline(tokeniser, token, ':');

and you can also convert a string to a number, using just 1 line

std::istringstream(token) >> num;

put it all together for an instant tokeniser

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

int main()
{
    int num;
    std::string token;
    std::istringstream tokeniser("12:34:56");

    while( std::getline(tokeniser, token, ':') )
        if ( std::istringstream(token) >> num )
            std::cout << num << std::endl;
} 

Depending what you need the number for, it might be useful to put the number in a vector, or some other array/container for later use instead.