Getline dealing with integers

Say you have a file formatted like this (name, phone number):

Joe Smith, 9019809923
Greg Jones, 9019867823

and you use getline to read in the each line then push it into a vector of strings.

so, you use

Code:

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getline(cin, name, ','); //ignore the comma

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get the line, then push it into the vector like this:

Code:

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names.push_back(name);

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This pushes Joe Smith into vector(0) and the corresponding phone number into vector(1), and the same with the second name into vector 2 & 3.

Is there any way to 'rip' out the phone numbers and properly format it like this: 901-980-9923?
I do not need help formatting the number... my question is how to you rip out a string and convert it into an integer - to properly use % to get it to format it correctly?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Code:

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char* strContainingNumbers = "1234";
int num = 0;

std::stringstream ss; //located in  <sstream>
ss << strContainingNumbers;
ss >> num; // num == 1234

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Quote:

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I do not need help formatting the number... my question is how to you rip out a string and convert it into an integer - to properly use % to get it to format it correctly?

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I suggest that you do not bother with converting it to an integer (though it can be done). Consider that these numbers, as integers, are likely to be greater than 2^32-1, which may be problematic.

As a string, a simple series of substrings and concatenation would suffice.