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Simple birthday Program.

Started by Crzyone9584 Jan 16, 2007 at 12:44 AM 4 replies 850+ views

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Jan 16, 2007 at 12:44 AM

Well i shouldnt say simple. It was in the beginning now i would like to get it to be more exact. This is what I'm trying to do. I would like the program I'm making to say your exact age to teh very second. Here is what i have so far. #include void main(void) { string name; int year; int dob; int sum; cout << "Enter First Name: "; cin >> name; cout << "Enter Current Year: "; cin >> year; cout << "Enter Date Of Birth: "; cin >> dob; sum = year - dob; cout << "Your Name is " << name; cout << "\nYour Age is " << sum << endl; } Please note that I turned a basic addition porgram in my c++ book into this with no knowledge what so ever. But i would like it to have you Input the month day and year for currnt year and bod. and then later on add some more advanced tools to this and a graphical interface. As of right now its all through the cmd windowl.

Crzyone9584

Jan 16, 2007 at 1:15 AM

Thats what im asking. how would i have the correct date format. mm/dd/yyyy as input and subtracted right?

Fase

Jan 16, 2007 at 1:30 AM

You either need to parse your dob string(which is currently an int and won't fly), or have it entered in lose chunks, like, month, day , year.

At the moment you are trying to store dob as a type of int.

int dob;...cout << "Enter Date Of Birth: ";cin >> dob;

This means only numerical values can be entered, so mm/dd/yy is out of the question.

Maybe you can break it up like:

int yearOfBirth;int monthOfBirth;int dayOfBirth;cout << "Enter Year Of Birth: ";cin >> yearOfBirth;etc

If this does not make sense to you, try some easier stuff first where data types are explained.

Crzyone9584

Jan 16, 2007 at 2:59 AM

That makes since to me. But now would i change the current to to the samething? and then just have a more advanced math problem to get the exact age?

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