Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[malimbar04]

So I'm working through a book on C++ (C++ Primer Plus Fifth Edition by SAMS publishing), and after re-writing several dozen sample programs and making a few on my own for study purposes, I decided to try to write a program for which I am otherwise unprepared. Why? because it's fun, in the most dwarfy way. I chose the real_age programming challenge, as it seemed like I should be relatively close to understanding it. I haven't worked with classes at all, but that didn't seem like it's THAt important yet.

Then I realized I have no idea what i'm talking about. I don't even know if ctime is the name for the modern library, or if I have to use time.h (and if I do, do I miss some features? other C++ libraries I'm working with don't have the .h ending). I also couldn't find "time" in the index of my book, and the C++ reference website seems to assume you already know what you're doing.

so, how do I use the time library to list various times, and then how do I convert the difference into say, days? From there I can figure out the math to turn that into months and years and print it to a console.

[lagging savant]

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/strftime/ . I just used this today to make a quick logger for the game I'm making. cplusplus.com is full of c++ awesomeness. To print the time to the console, you can use cout. Put the data into a string then , cout << string.

[lordnincompoop]

And FYI we have a Bay12Prog thread for this stuff.

[Outcast Orange]

EDIT:

Sorry you had to see that, I forgot what I was doing for a second there.