How to get time from string H:M:S in C

Question

I need to extract hours, minutes and seconds from a string formatted as e.g: "00:53:12" to variables a, b and c.

How would I go about this in C?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use standard function strptime:

strptime(timestr,"%H:%M:%S", ret)

Answer 2

You can use strptime

struct tm tm;

if (strptime("00:53:12", "%H:%M:%S", &tm) != NULL)
   printf("hour: %d; minutes: %d; seconds: %d;\n",
      tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec);