Manipulating the input from the user.

hello,
i am doing an assignment and in it, I want to ask the user for two numbers( a row and a column) but it should be in the format of x:y
where x is the row and y is the column.
My question, how can i take this input and put it in two separate variables to use?
I thought of using a string for the input variable but i don't know how to change that to a string and get the two variables separate.

thanks in advance.

Input a string, then separate them into strings and convert them into integers.
I assume you know how to input a string.
To separate them, use find() and substr() to find the ":" and to extract the parts, respectively. Or you could just cheat and use boost::split. There are some examples on the web.
To convert the strings into integers, use stringstreams. Or you could just cheat and use boost::lexical_cast.

Good luck.