Question

I am writing a c++ prgram and have to read some data from a .txt file.the format looks like the following:
“name gender DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS“

I know how to read a .txt file and cin the words one by one, but i dont know how to deal with the symbols “/” or “:“.
I have to compare the ages of two person.

Please help!

Answer 1

Aside from the easiest way with sscanf, like Jerry describes, it’s also possible with iostreams. Just read the data you want from the file, until you hit a seperator, and discard that one into a dummy char:

char dummy;
myfile >> first_name >> last_name >> day >> dummy >> month >> dummy ... // and so on.