Splitting it up...

[Richcoleuk]

Hello, i am needing to make a digital clock. I have designed a class that will draw each of the digits 1-9 out of 7 rectangles. I want to call up the clock on the computer then split this up into 6 digits ie 23:45:12 into 2, 3, 4,5, 1, 2 and use my digit drawing to draw each one indiviually. Can anyonehelp me with this or is there a beter way to do it?

[Fantik]

pass 23:45:15 as a string.
then cut each value of the string into an array. that'd be easy.
but you'd have to do error checking in either after or before to disregard the other characters.. such as :

then you can do a

[code]
array = new int[timeString.length()]
for(int i=0; i<timeString.length(); i++)
{

array[i] = timeString.substring(i,i+1)
}
that will leave you with the array that's filled like this

2
3
:
4
5
:
1
5


you should be able to figure out what to do with it from here, if not. post.

[Richcoleuk]

I am still a little unclear as to what you mean?

[Fantik]

ok save the timestamp as a string.
then you save each character of the string into a spot on an array.

the for loop in my code does that. timeString.substring(i,i+1) just substrings the i'th character of the string.
and saves it to the i'th position of the array.

you could also say

while (timeString.substring(i,i+1) != ":")
{
insert for loop here.(as written above)

}

that would only save the digits of the timestamp to the locations of the array.


then for whatever reason you need to nab the first number of the timestamp.

you just pass the array locatoins to the other method that draws the number

array[0] will = 2
array[1] = 3
array[2] = 4
array[3] = 5
array[4] = 1
array[5] = 5

see? that will split up each number into its own array location.

[Richcoleuk]

Im sorry im still confused, i sort of get what your saying. is there anyway we can talk on icq or man ot yahoo?

[Fantik]

i'm at work now. I'm 48283475 on ICQ. I'll talk to you when I get home from work.

[Richcoleuk]

okay what time gmt will you be on icq?

[Fantik]

whatever time is 5 or 6 hours from right now. I refuse to do the addition/subtraction to find out what time it will be there.

[Richcoleuk]

okay well ill be on icq thanks for all the help i really appreciate it