probably a very easy question...

[s_siouris]

I've written a program that in one instance it calls:

system("date +%d%m%y");

but instead of the normal output in the terminal, I want to read this as either a string or integer. I'm still struggling on how to do this, so has anyone got any ideas?

thanks in advance
Spiros

[Salem]

You can do so much more by just calling strftime() with whatever conversion string you like, and with whatever date/time you like (not just 'now' as with the date command).

[s_siouris]

thanks, actually, I was just looking at that!. I'll try and use it and I'll report back.

Thanks
Spiros