Homework Help

Help! I have a homework assignment due this afternoon and can not get it working. Here is a little more details about the assignment.

Question3 (Strings & Files) (20 marks)

Write a well-commented C++ program that reformats and outputs the date. Prompt the user to input the date in the format dd/mm/yyyy and outputs it in this format month, dd, yyyy. For example, 07/06/2012 is displayed as June 07, 2012. You are provided with the file months.txt containing the months and their corresponding numbers, for example 01January 02February etc. Use getline(monthsFile,monthString) to read in a string from the file, and use the monthString.find() function to search for the number and extract the corresponding month.


-confused by the way she told me to use getline(monthsFile,monthString) => if I just do it like this I only get the first line from the txt file (01January)
-if I try putting all the months on one line in the txt file (which i'm not even sure i'm allowed to do), I'm not sure what to do for the length of my substring output. if I make it long enough to fit longer months like September, someone entering may gets both may and june in the output
-if I input all the months into separate variables, I'm not sure how to make it only output the month entered by the user

the months.txt file is as follows:

01January
02February
03March
04April
05May
06June
07July
08August
09September
10October
11Novmber
12December

Thanks for your help!

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-confused by the way she told me to use getline(monthsFile,monthString) => if I just do it like this I only get the first line from the txt file (01January)

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yes for the first use of getline. However, if you put this into a loop until end of file is reached then you can read the whole file.

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-if I input all the months into separate variables, I'm not sure how to make it only output the month entered by the user

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The don't input into separate variables! Either read the whole file into an array (or better vector) and then access the required element of the array or read until the required month number has been found and then use the corresponding month name.