pointers problem

[FoxStudent]

I have a character array in the form DD/MM/YYYY and want to reference the last four characters as an integer. I could not find a 'right' function. So I strated trying to address individual elements, for example, date[6] when printing the result to the screen I got the character numeral. However, it appears to see the character as an integer I have tried using the char() function and this seems not to work in an assignmentent statement as it still sees the new character as an integer and I cannot get it to convert to a character pointer. I need a charcter pointer in order to concatencate the last four letters so as I can convert them all into an integer. I am sure there is an easier way to do this.
P.S. this is a stored date I am aware of the getdate() function for getting the current date in terms of day, month and year.

THANK U
GRAINNE

 

[Zyrenthian]

Well, knowing that it will always be in the DD/MM/YYYY format you can do a couple of things. Here is how I would approach it.

// check this quick snip of code that accomplishes what you
// need

char dateString[]= "01/03/2001";
char tempString[11];
strcpy(tempString,dateString);

char* dayPtr;
char* monthPtr;
char* yearPtr;

dayPtr = tempString;

monthPtr = strstr(dayPtr,"/")+1;
*(monthPtr-1)=0;

yearPtr = strstr(monthPtr,"/")+1;
*(yearPtr-1) = 0;

cout<<atoi(dayPtr)<<endl;
cout<<atoi(monthPtr)<<endl;
cout<<atoi(yearPtr)<<endl;

 

[Wings]

How about this

String sDate = DateToStr(Date());
sDate = sDate.SubString(7,4);
int iDate = StrToInt(sDate);

A variation of the above code should get you what you need.