11 since "yymmdd-ssss" is 11 letters long..

oh ok, your first post didn't include the -ssss part. regardless, what's wrong with azrad's code? obviously it's not complete, but it's a starting place for you.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Oct 19 2013 07:18am

Yeah, you were lamenting that you were going to receive the data as a string, and clearly you need the months/years/day/(and now seconds) as separate integers so you can do some math with them. My snippet shows one method (I'm sure a serious c++ programmer can probably give you a better method) of getting that data converted into the integers you need.

its a birth id im looking for.. for example 900224-3333

90 = 1990
02 = february
24 = the 24th day

3333 = is the ID for the person...

I need to be able to check the third and fourth symbol so its in the range 1-12 since there is no 13th month and so on,, I hope you understand.

i think you're the one who's not understanding. no hatin'. read his code snippet again and try to understand what he's doing. maybe look up what substr and atoi do if you're not familiar with them.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Oct 19 2013 02:35pm