Using string

Hello there, i having a small issue reading string of 01/6/2005 MM/DD/YYYY.
how do i get it to read the rest of the dd and year due to the / ???


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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{

  //asking user for info:
  int num;
  string data;
  cout << "asking user input: ";
  getline(cin, data);
  // cout << "is: " << data;

  num = atoi(data.c_str());


  switch(atoi(data.c_str()))
{
  case 1:
    cout << "Jan" << endl;
    break;
  case 2:
    cout << "Feb" << endl;
    break;
  case 3:
    cout << "Mar" << endl;
    break;
  case 4:
    cout << "Apr" << endl;
    break;
  case 5:
    cout << "May" << endl;
    break;
  case 6:
    cout << "Jun" << endl;
    break;
  case 7:
    cout << "Jul" << endl;
    break;
  case 8:
    cout << "Aug" << endl;
    break;
  case 9:
    cout << "Sep" << endl;
    break;
  case 10:
    cout << "Oct" << endl;
    break;
  case 11:
    cout << "Nov" << endl;
    break;
  case 12:
    cout << "Dec" << endl;
    break;

  default:
    cout << "invalid input!" << endl;

 }

  //  cout << data << endl;

  return 0;

}



so when i output it it said watever the month but doesn't tell me the dd and year please help?
You can use std::getline() with '/' as the delimiter.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/getline/
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