With scanf there's, usually, a direct way to take formatted input:
1) line with a real number higher than 0, and less than 1. Ending on 'x', e.g: 0.32432523x
scanf("0.%[0-9]x", &number);
2) line represents an addition in the format :30+28=fifty-eight
scanf(":%d+%d=%99s", &number1, &number2, &total);
What is the cin solution, using only the standard library?
Use the >> operator to read from cin.
int number1, number2;
std::string text;
char plus, equals;
std::cin >> number1 >> plus >> number2 >> equals >> text;
if (!std::cin.fail() && plus == '+' && equals == '=' && !text.empty())
std::cout << "matched";
It's not as good as scanf because you'd have to verify any literals that were in the scanf string yourself. Doing it with streams will almost certainly be a lot more lines of code than scanf.
I would use scanf.
You can make a simple class to verify input.
struct confirm_input {
char const *str;
confirm_input( char const *in ) : str( in ) {}
friend std::istream &operator >>
( std::istream &s, confirm_input const &o ) {
for ( char const *p = o.str; * p; ++ p ) {
if ( std::isspace( * p ) ) {
std::istream::sentry k( s ); // discard whitespace
} else if ( (c = s.get() ) != * p ) {
s.setstate( std::ios::failbit ); // stop extracting
}
}
return s;
}
};
usage:
std::cin >> x >> confirm_input( " = " ) >> y;