Extract numbers as integers from a string array

Here is my main()

Code:

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void main()
{
        ifstream inFile;
        char buffer[80];
        int year, month, day;

        inFile.open("birthday.txt",ios::in|ios::nocreate);

        if(inFile.fail())
        {
                cout << "birthday.txt could not be opened";
                exit(1);
        }
       
        inFile.getline(buffer,80,'\n');
       
}

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Now what is in buffer is 2002 3 20 a date
I want to put 2002 into year an integer variable and month and day as well.

Thanks DarthC

Code:

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#include <strstream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

void main()
{
        std::ifstream inFile;
        char buffer[80];
        int year, month, day;

        inFile.open("birthday.txt",ios::in|ios::nocreate);

        if(inFile.fail())
        {
                std::cout << "birthday.txt could not be opened";
                exit(1);
        }

        inFile.getline(buffer,80,'\n');

        std::istrstream inStream(buffer);
        inStream >> year >> month >> day;
        std::cout << year << " " << month <<  " " << day << std::endl;
}

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Or you could skip the strstream. If the date is in the format you've specified write directly into the variables-

inFile >> year >> month >> day;

instead of using getline().