Stop ctime from breaking line?

When I use ctime and time, it always breaks a line after it outputs... How do I change this behaviour so that it doesn't break line?

Please post code so we can see what the problem really is.

Code:

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                      if (exp == "y")
                      {
                                    time(&timz);
                                    ofstream exp("export.txt", ios::app);
                                    exp<<ctime(&timz)<<"Integer Benchmark: "<<y<<" seconds.";
                                    exp.close();
                      }

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After the ctime, the line breaks...

Here's your answer:

Code:

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char *  ctime ( const time_t * timer );

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"
Convert time_t value to string.
Converts timer to a string containing time and date adjusted to local time zone in readable format.
timer is an integer value of type time_t defined as long int by default in most compilers, and usually returned by a call to time function.
The returned string has the following format:
Www Mmm dd hh:mm:ss yyyy
where Www is the weekday, Mmm the month in letters, dd the day of the month, hh:mm:ss the time, and yyyy the year. The string is followed by a new-line character (\n) and a terminating null-character, conforming a total of 26 characters."

- Micko

So there is no way to get around this?

if you want to display in one line use something like this:

Code:

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char* tmp = ctime(....);
char buf[30];

strcpy(buf, tmp);

char* p = strchr(buf,'\n');

if (p)
{
    *p = '\0';
}

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- Micko

Micko this is c++ no need for that ugly :)

Code:

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std::string thetime = ctime(&timz);
thetime.erase(thetime.find('\n', 0), 1);
exp<<thetime<<" Integer Benchmark: "<<y<<" seconds.";

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It's really nice and elegant, thank you Thantos!

Thank you guys.. it works!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Thantos

Micko this is c++ no need for that ugly :)

Code:

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std::string thetime = ctime(&timz);
thetime.erase(thetime.find('\n', 0), 1);
exp<<thetime<<" Integer Benchmark: "<<y<<" seconds.";

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I think the C version looks better ;)

But why the inconsistent use of std namespace?

because they had already provided the rest of the code save the string. It's called copy and paste :)

You could always use strftime() which is the general purpose routine, of which ctime() is but a special case.

Now where is the fun in that Salem?

> Now where is the fun in that Salem?
Passing it NULL :p