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Re: need help - formatting input

From: Psybar Phreak
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:52

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sorry - prolly should have emtnioned i was trying to do this in c

thanks

daina


"Psybar Phreak" <gotyoubacktoo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> hi all....  hope someone can lend me a  little help on a problem im
working
> on
>
> background desc :  program can take either
> 1)  Two dates in the format (yyyymmdd) through stdin, or
> 2) One date in the format (yyyymmdd) and a single number (up to 7 digits
> long)
>
> firstly i was thinking about using scanf("%03d, %01d, %01d", &year,
&month,
> &day);  but that will only work in case 1 where there's two dates
>
> sooo....  does anyone know a way, in which i could just save the 2 inputs
as
> separate int's, run a check on the length of it, then, if its a date,
break
> it into pieces so i get the year in one variable, the month in another,
and
> the day in another?!??!
>
> what do you think?  would this be the easiest way about it or am imissing
> something a lot easier?
>
> thanks everyone
>
> daina
> sydney, australia
>
>

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