Question

I have been searching everywhere before asking this, but have not found anything.
There’s no mention of it in my Schaums Programming with C++ Book that I’m self learning from either…

Using C++ how can you convert a string eg "0:03:22" to 3 separate int values of0, 03and22`? Assuming its possible.

Answer 1

something like

std::string str="0:03:22";
std::istringstream ss(str);
int hours,mins,seconds;
char skip;
if(ss >> hours >> skip >> mins >> skip >> seconds) {
    //success
}

Here we are creating a stream, from which we can extract each element.

reference

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_stringstream