split string

  #include <iostream> //for cout and cin
  #include <string> //for strtok()
  #include <cstdlib> //for atoi()
  using namespace std;
  
  int main() {
  	char* date = ""; //declare variable which will hold the un-splitted date as a string
  	char* date_ar[3] = {"", "", ""}; //declare the array which will hold the parts of the date as strings
 	cout << "Please enter a date in the format DD.MM.YYYY: "; //prompt the user to enter the date in the correct format
 	cin >> date; //grab the date input from the user NOTE: we are trusting the user to use the correct format, if they don't weird things will probably happen after this point
 	date_ar[0] = strtok(date, "."); //refer to http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/ for information on what this does, i don't completely understand it but their example code does what you want
  	date_ar[1] = strtok(NULL, ".");
  	date_ar[2] = strtok(NULL, ".");
  	int a = atoi(date_ar[0]);
  	int b = atoi(date_ar[1]);
 	int c = atoi(date_ar[2]); //declare variables to hold the parts of the date as ints and fill them with the results of atoi(), which converts a string to an integer
  	cout << "you entered " << a << "." << b << "." << c << endl;
  	cin.get();
  	return 0;
  }