Overloading the >> operator problem splitting the input

Hi,

I am trying to overload the input operator in the following manner:

I have a playing card class that that contains two private members: rank stores the value of a card, suit stores the suit of the card.

The >> operator should accept cards in the following manner:

examples:
7S
KH
3D

where 7S represents the 7 of spades
where KH represents the king of hearts
where 3D represents the 3 of diamonds

For the first example, internally, this would occur within an object of the playing card class:

rank = Seven
suit = Spades

I have created two enum types to use:

Code:

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enum Rank {Two ... Ace};
enum Suit {Spades ... Hearts};

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So my challenge is I am unsure as how to split that one value from stdin into two usable values

Code:

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istream& operator>> (istream& in, Card& c)
{
        in >> c;            //Need help with implementation
        return in;
}]

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how about something like this, put into a function:

Code:

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  string card;
  cin >> card;
  rank = card[0];
  suit = card[1];

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Then do whatever you want with it, no need to overload the operator.

In short, you need to read the characters in, convert them in the proper members of card field values, and handle errors in formatting correctly.