Appointment Manager

[appointment]

Doing an appointment manager in C++ under Ubuntu using command line interface.

Will store all appts inside a standard db.txt file with one entry per line.


User will enter ./add 5 March 2009 Test One

Just wonder if C++ has native function that can let me do the sorting of month in english, instead of converting it into March=03.

Also what approach should I take to sort the entries into date order whenever I addd a new appointment.


i.e. the text file should contain appts stored in date order, one appt per line.

5 March 2009 Test One
5 May 2009 Test Two
15 June 2010 Project One.

[scwizzo]

Just wonder if C++ has native function that can let me do the sorting of month in english, instead of converting it into March=03.

Whats wrong with telling it the month in numbers? There's only 12 so it shouldn't be a big deal to convert the month to its corresponding number.

Also what approach should I take to sort the entries into date order whenever I addd a new appointment.

Maybe sort by month first, then by day. And if you add in time you could always do by hour/minute later. Start with the biggest time spand first, and work your way smaller.

[Salem]

If you store the date and time in a standard format, then you'll have a much easier time of it when sorting, and a much easier time of it when it comes to supporting different users in different locales.