Scanning & extracting from CString

[Jose Luis Sogorb]

Anybody can show me an easy way to extract words from a string. Say I have the CString "03 March 2005" and I want an integer with the day, a string with month and an integer with year. Thanks.

[David Crow]

Several ways:

CString str = "03 March 2005";
int nDay = atoi(str); // stops at the first non-numeric character
int nYear = atoi(str.Right(4));
or
int nYear;
char szMonth[6];
sscanf(str, "%d %s %d", &nDay, szMonth, &nYear);
or
CString strMonth = str.Mid(3, 5);
or
int nSpace1 = str.Find(' ');
int nSpace2 = str.ReverseFind(' ');
strMonth = str.Mid(nSpace1 + 1, nSpace2 - nSpace1 - 1);

There are probably more, but I think you get the idea.

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[Blake Miller]

sscanf is evil! I like to use it for buffer overruns myself :mad:

[Jose Luis Sogorb]

Thank you!