C - Using scanf (or any other function) to get date MM/DD/YYYY in int

Question

I\'m writing a C program in class that requires us to input dates as integers in a structure defined as:

typedef struct date{

    int month;
    int day;
           


        

Answer 1

On a system with POSIX strptime() or a similar function, if you first read the string representation into str, you can then use:

struct tm tm;
strptime(str, "%m/%d/%Y", &tm);

It translates to your date as follows:

date.year = tm.tm_year;
date.month = tm.tm_mon;
date.day = tm.tm_mday;