Question

I’m writing a logger for my program in C++.

I have this piece of code:

void Log::Write(char* logline)
{
    time_t rawtime;
    struct tm * timeinfo;
    time ( &rawtime );
    timeinfo = localtime ( &rawtime );
    m_stream << asctime (timeinfo) << logline << endl;
}

This is a log

Tue Oct 11 13:07:28 2011

I want a different output on a single line like this:
Tue Oct 11 13:07:28 2011 – This is a log

How can I do it?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Your problem is asctime():

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

The string is followed by a new-line character ('\n') and the terminating null-character.

As the returned string is a C string, you could replace the \n with a \0:

char * str = asctime(timeinfo);
str[strlen(str) - 1] = '\0';

AS long as you don’t call ctime or asctime again, the content won’t be overwritten.