string to int

[YelloFello]

9 hours on my own...now I just need a little push.

I intput a string array in the following format .... " 55-dave","32-bab",etc.

55 is the score from test
dave is name of test taker.

I can get "55" out of the string but I can't seem to get it converted to an int so I can put it in an array for sorting.
I have tried to use atoi() but, it doesn't like the fact that I try to use a string array in the parameters...

ex.
string b_score[] = {"55-dave"};

int x = atoi( b_score[]);


Is there a better way ( i'm sure there is) to go about this?

1 more question..should I use char arrays instead of strings?...

I've only been at this for 5 weeks so anything is helpful.

 

[PerFnurt]

atoi works. As it says in MSDN:

"The function stops reading the input string at the first character that it cannot recognize as part of a number."

Your example seems a bit odd. Should probably be:

// An array of strings
string b_score[] = {"55-dave"};

// atoi on the string 0 (c_str() returns the string as const char*)
int x = atoi( b_score[0].c_str());

Assuming we're talking about std::string here....






/Per
_{Nerdy signatures are as lame as the inconsistent stardates of STTNG.}