Hi,

I am wondering if anyone could help me with a conversion. I have a date that is in the format of

I need to add one day to it.

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks,

well, since you know the format of the string, you can easily parse it into a number (usually computers represent date/time as offset since Jan 1, 1970). One question is with single-digit days, will the format be 1-JAN-1970 or 01-JAN-1970?
In any case, I would probably use a stringstream. Research these. You would declare the stringstream, output the string date to it, and then extract (>> operator) the day, month, and year. Then you could add one to the day, but make sure to handle cases where it spills over into the next month (you'll need to algorithm-ize "30 days hath september..." and leap years (a year is a leap year if it's divisible by 4, but not if it's divisible by 100 unless it's also divisible by 400; have fun concocting that if condition)). See how far you can get and post back here if you need further assistance.

Hi,

OK I have been able to parse my string, and then convert the date into an int. Is there a way I can use some sort of date class and pass in my parameters??


Thanks,

Now that it's an int can't you add one to the value? There is no "sort of date class" I'm aware of. Don't forget about ubergeek's suggestion...

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Hi,

Yes, actually for my debugging, I simply added a one to the number. However, as suggested, there are a few things to take account for, and using a bunch of if -else statements or quite a few nested for loops, I was hoping there was a cleaner way.


Thanks!