Convert String to time

Hi, i have a problem over here..

I am doing C programming on Visual Studio 2005, Console Application..

I know that this can be done, but however, the compiler does not recognize some methods and my project is unable to build..

Code:

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GetInformation.C
/* Author: 054094F
Nanyang Polytechnic Singapore
Visual Studio 8.0
*/

                printf("Enter date of birth: (DDMMYYYY) ");
                gets(dob);
                if (strptime(dob, "%d%m%Y", &tm) == NULL)
                       
                        printf("Invalid date please try again");

                else       
                        printf("year: %d; month: %d; day: %d;\n", tm.tm_year, tm.tm_mon, tm.tm_mday);

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my error lies here
Error 20 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _strptime getinformation.obj

Error 21 fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\NYP Assignments\Year3 Sem2\IT3784 - C, Linux\054094F_Week5_ASSN\Debug\054094F_Week5_ASSN. exe
Can anyone help?

Don't EVER use gets().

strptime, it appears, is not part of the Microsoft library set.

You may be able to find source for strptime in Linux or NetBSD C library source code.

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Mats

erm is there an alternative way to do this in visual studio?

It would appear that there is no such function.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/lib...9h(VS.80).aspx

You may try this NetBSD C library implementation. It probably requires SOME adjustment to compile in a Windows environment, but I expect it to only be small work.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/...ime.c?rev=HEAD

I got the NetBSD link from here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...97390&SiteID=1

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Mats