C++::std::cin
 

hi all,
how can i specify to cin number of character to read from input?
eg:
input: Dec90
so i want to stock Dec in a string variable, and 90 in int variable.

i think in C is something like:

Streams are designed to tokenize input. Either make sure the input read in is whitespace separated or separated by some other special char, or just use the C function and forget about streams.

You can also use a combination of formatted (tokenized) input and unformated input:

char date[4]; // 4 for terminating nul that get() adds.
int year;
cin.get(date, 3) >> year;

Mike

thank you all