Overloading constructors?

I've written a Date class, implementation below. It has a default constructor and can print the date in either mm/dd/yyyy format, or as January 1, 2000, e.g. This is ok, it works. But I have to write an overloaded constructor so that besides setting the date with setDate(int, int, int) as default, it will accept the January.... format. The text we're using, Deitel's, says it can be done, but shows no examples of how. If I had a char, int, int constructor, would I then have to write new set and print functions for it? How does this work? We're also supposed to use ddd yyyy format, but I've never heard of that. Thanks.

Code:

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// DateClass.cpp: implementation of the DateClass class.
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#include "DateClass.h"
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Construction/Destruction
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

DateClass::DateClass(int mm, int dd, int yy)
{
        cout << "Constructor called\n";
        setDate(mm, dd, yy);
}

DateClass::~DateClass()
{
        cout << "\nDestructor called\n";
}

void DateClass::setDate(int mn, int dy, int yr)
{
        setMonth(mn);
        setDay(dy);
        setYear(yr);
}

void DateClass::setDay(int d)
{
        static const int lastDay[13] = {0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};

        if (month == 2 && d == 29 && (year % 400 == 0 || (year % 4 == 0 && year % 100 != 0)))
                day = d;
        else if (d > 0 && d <= lastDay[month])
                day = d;
        else
                day = 1;
}

void DateClass::setMonth(int m)
{
        month = ((m > 0 && m < 13) ? m : 1);
}

void DateClass::setYear(int y)
{
        year = ((y >= 0 && y <= 9999) ? y : 2000);       
}

void DateClass::printNumeral()
{
        cout << "Date in mm/dd/yy format: \n";
        cout << month << "/" << day << "/" << year << endl;
}

void DateClass::printStandard()
{
        static const char *mnthName[12] = {"January", "February", "March", "April",
                "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"};

        cout << "Date in standard format: \n";
        cout << mnthName[month - 1] << " " << day << ", " << year << endl;
}

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Also, I forgot to add that the header file defaults the constructor to int = 1, int = 1, int = 2000

You could just write a another constructor

DateClass(char*,int,int);

move your static monthname array into the private section (it will still want to be static and you'll wont be able to initialise it there) and then use strcmp() in the body of your constructor to get and set the month number.

I'm not sure what the ddd yyyy format is though.

Well, I couldn't get it to work that way. The array is used in two member functions, but since I couldn't initialize it under private, I would have had to initialize it twice in a cumbersome manner (at least as far as I could figure out). So I figured just as declare & initialize in the two functions. This code works, but I'm sure there's a better way. I couldn't figure it out though.

Code:

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// DateClass.cpp: implementation of the DateClass class.
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <cstring>
#include "DateClass.h"
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Construction/Destruction
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Default constructor for DateClass objects
DateClass::DateClass(int mm, int dd, int yy)
{
        cout << "Default constructor called\n";
        setDate(mm, dd, yy);
}

DateClass::~DateClass()
{
        cout << "\nDestructor called\n";
}

void DateClass::setDate(int mn, int dy, int yr)                // set date
{
        setMonth(mn);
        setDay(dy);
        setYear(yr);
}

void DateClass::setDay(int d)        // check for valid month/day & leap year and set day
{
        static const int lastDay[13] = {0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31};

        if (month == 2 && d == 29 && (year % 400 == 0 || (year % 4 == 0 && year % 100 != 0)))
                day = d;
        else if (d > 0 && d <= lastDay[month])
                day = d;
        else
                day = 1;
}

void DateClass::setMonth(int m)        // check month for validity and set
{
        month = ((m > 0 && m < 13) ? m : 1);
}

void DateClass::setYear(int y)        // check year for validity and set
{
        year = ((y >= 0 && y <= 9999) ? y : 2000);       
}

void DateClass::printNumeral()        // print in mm/dd/yy format
{
        cout << "Date in mm/dd/yy format: \n";
        cout << month << "/" << day << "/" << year << endl;
}

void DateClass::printStandard()        // print in month day, year format
{
        // array of month names
        static char* mnthName[12] = {"January", "February", "March", "April","May",
                "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"};

        cout << "Date in standard format: \n";
        cout << mnthName[month - 1] << " " << day << ", " << year << endl;
}

DateClass::DateClass(char *mo, int da, int ye)
{
        cout << "Non-default constructor called\n";

        int i = 0, m = 0;        // counter and month variables

        // array of month names
        static char* mnthName[12] = {"January", "February", "March", "April","May",
                "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"};
       
        // convert character month name to integer for setDate function
        do
        {
                if (strcmp(mo, mnthName[i]) == 0)
                        m = i + 1;
                i++;
        }while (m == 0);

        setDate(m, da, ye);
}

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Nice smileys :)

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Originally posted by Magos
Nice smileys :)

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Yeah, some format thing in the forum I haven't looked up yet.

You initialise static class members like this -

Code:

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class stat
{
        static int f;
};

int stat::f=10;

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