hh:mm in input?

[TURAL MeLIKLI]

how can i write time in this format hh:mm in input?
for example

00:42

[TURAL MeLIKLI]

any answer?

[coder777]

which input prevents you from writing so?

[TURAL MeLIKLI]

i write like that but it gives error cin>>a>>":">>b;

[Danny Toledo]

What do you expect that line to do? You are trying to put user input to a defined string (meaning that ":" is not a variable which you can assign stuff to as it is already defined as ":"). If what you are trying to do is print the variables and the colon, use cout<<.

[10oTURfi]

hehe
This is what you want to do:

int hh, mm;
cin >> hh >> mm;
cout << hh << ":" << mm;

[coder777]

Krofna wrote:

This is what you want to do:

Nope, he want his input formatted.

@TURAL MeLIKLI
cin doesn't allow formatted input. You have to read it as a string and check whether it's ok or not

[TURAL MeLIKLI]

for example user enter this 12:54 is it possible without string?

[coder777]

You can use scanf http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/scanf/ like so:

scanf("%02d:%02d", &i, &j);

that'd work only if the user inputs the right combination. Like any other stdandard console input function it doesn't constrain the user input anyway

[jcgertig]

you can create a time class with hour and min var and overload the '>>' cin as a public friend

friend istream &operator>>( istream &input, Time &right ) //input in hh:mm format
{
        input >> right.hour; // input hours
        input.ignore(); // skip :
        input >>right.min; // input minute part
        return input;
}