How to keep 2 numbers in output

Hey there!

I am trying to figure out how to return a double zero entered

You are entering minutes - 00 as int, then need to output it, but only a single 0 comes out
same if you enter 10, in outputs 1 - it disregards the 0...

what can I do to get both the numbers to output and not disregard this

thought on possible solutions:
- set precision - but this only works for decimals
- do I need to convert the int input to char and output as string?

problem is there is no int 00, more logically 00 is not a number - so reading it in as such is moot.

you could read 00 in as a string and then convert to integer 0 to do calculations however this is not straight forward and you may have to put in some extra includes and google some parsing commands ie beyond the scope of the study guide.

I overcame this by reading in integer 0 and at the final stage simply outputted (for example) "00" if the integer was 0. In general prepending a 0 if the integer was between 0-9 worked for me.

This feels a bit kludgy, but how about something on the line of

cout << thisfunc(arg) <<thatfunc(arg) << endl; ?

(Where thisfunc gives you a zero and thatfunc gives you your answer in proper numeric format).

If you don't tell C++ to endl or to "\n" what do you reckon it does?

Please, please, please try to find a better way than this to do this, though. The only virtue here is that you're not converting things to characters (which might be a perfectly good way of doing the job, might it not?).

On second thoughts, maybe you should just convert to character. What's the purpose of the figure? Is it to do further calculations with, or store as a number somewhere? Or is it simply to display to some human what the "answer" is? If it's just an answer, do you think the user would mind if it's Unicode or ASCII or double precision integer?

There's no need to re-invent the wheel, it's all in the STL already. This tutorial shows you nicely what you can do and how to do it.

that would of saved me some time. really got to get into the habit of checking the std lib for stuff like that!