Re: How to read a for-digits number with I/O operators ?

From:
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comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:15:07 -0700 (PDT)
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 Madden <terminato...@gmail.com> wrote:

Francesco S. Carta wrote:

Timothy Madden <terminato...@gmail.com>, on 12/08/2010 16:38:34, wrote:

Hello

My application connects to a server that sends back a date in
"YYYYMMDDhhmmss" format, that is a date like "20100803102438".

How can I read the year, month, day, hour, minute and second from this
string with standard stream classes ? To get the time_t ?


Get a char at a time (or find an appropriate member that reads n chars)
in order to separate the various values as different strings, then
extract the actual values from these strings (either using the extracto=

r

operator on a stringstream or by passing a C-string to the appropriate =

C

function [*] that read ints from a C-string).

About time_t, look up its specs and see how to build it using the value=

s

that you just extracted from that server string using some variant of
the method delineated above.


Getting the time_t is just a matter of filling one struct tm variable
with the components and calling mktime().

atoi()/atol() have the problem that they silently stop if the string
contains characters other than digits; I was hoping for a method that
would also check the format (or skip non-digits instead of stopping). I
had to do something like

string strDate = "20100803102438";
string::const_iterator
            it = strDate.begin();
istringstream
            stream;

stream.exceptions(stream.badbit | stream.failbit);

stream.str(string(it, it += 4));
stream >> year;

stream.str(string(it, it += 2));
stream >> month;

stream.str(string(it, it += 2));
stream >> day;
//...
//...

However I think this does not check for non-digits and I think scanf can
   do the job in just one call.

Thank you,
Timothy Madden

Here is the basic one. You can modify it or add various checking.
--------------------------------------
#include <iostream>

inline int charnum(char ch)
{ return ch-'0'; };

static int parse_pnum(const char* str, size_t len)
{
 int sum=0;
 for(const char *p=str, *end=str+len; p!=end; ++p) {
   int d=charnum(*p);
   if((d<0)||(d>9)) {
     throw "Invalid digit in " __FILE__;
   }
   sum*=10;
   sum+=d;
 }
 return sum;
};

int main(int,char*[])
try {
 const char str[]="20100803102438";

 std::cout << "year = " << parse_pnum(str ,4) << '\n'
           << "month = " << parse_pnum(str+4 ,2) << '\n'
           << "mday = " << parse_pnum(str+6 ,2) << '\n'
           << "hour = " << parse_pnum(str+8 ,2) << '\n'
           << "minute= " << parse_pnum(str+10,2) << '\n'
           << "second= " << parse_pnum(str+12,2) << '\n'
           << '\n';
 return 0;
}
catch(...) {
 std::cerr << "unknown throw object\n";
 throw;
};

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