Thread: cin question

I have some problems using cin -command. Let's assume someone writes a random input from keyboard and it is "123.04.00012" + <return>, how can I store numbers 123, 4 and 12 to variables? I'd like to handle "." as a separator. Please give me a simple answer.

use cin.get() I think.

Maybe you can use this.

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(void)
{
char str[50];
cin >> str;
char* str2,*str3;
str2 = strtok(str,".");
str2 = strtok(NULL,".");
str3 = strtok(str,".");
cout << "\n\n\tStrings: " << str2 << "," << str3;
getch();
}

I could handle it as a string, but it would be the hard solution. It can be done with a single scanf -command, but standard library can't be used in my case. I have worked with C couple of years, but now I should start using C++ commands on some occasions. For example now I'm totally puzzled with a single cin command. I've read all about cin from my 2 C++ books. I miss scanf !!!

Prelude,

What is it about cin that gives it its "lameness"? It's a heck of a lot easier than reading input in Java.

Originally posted by Prelude
>but standard library can't be used in my case.
Well, seeing as how cin is a part of the standard library you're stuck unless you feel up to writing your own input and output routines. If the input is pretty random then you'll have a hard time of trying to get formatted input, read the entire line and parse it would be my suggestion. cin is similar to scanf in it's lameness and getline is the C++ version of fgets.

>I miss scanf
Dear god, why?

-Prelude

You're wrong here.

cin is part of iostream.h
scanf is part of stdio.h

stdio stands for standard input/output.

Could someone please reply to my original problem?

Originally posted by ihsir
use cin.getline(text,15,'\n') to input

then use isdigit in ctype.h to store all digits before '.' to different strings and then use atoi() to convert them to int.

pretty easy

Yeah, I'm doing it in hardway currently. Still I'm missing some experienced programmer to tell me if it is possible to use some syntax with cin where only 1 line is needed.

for example input "12 34 56" can be stored to 3 variables with
cin>>firstone>>secondone>>thirdone;

only difference is a space replaced by dot. Please tell me if there is a simple way doing this.

int a, b, c;
printf("Write a random input : "); // user types 12.34.56
scanf("%d.%d.%d", &a, &b, &c);
printf("First parsed number %d, second parsed number %d, third parsed number %d", a, b, c);

// ofcourse can be parsed, why not some clever reply next time?!

Oh, a guy who said it can't be parsed removed his message.