Simple - Just new environment for me

[nightjam]

I'm use to program in Turbo C but yesterday I took up Visaul C

I note clrsrc() fucntion is not recoginse using Visual.

What the function in Visual to clear the screen?

[parksie]

First thing...

...you may think it's just a new environment, but Turbo C++ was DOS and as such, 16-bit (i.e. int == 16 bits). Visual C++ is for Windows, and is 32-bit.

This means that things like near and far pointers are gone, you just declare a normal pointer and you get access to a 4gb flat memory space (although you'll get an access violation if you don't own the bit you want to read ).

But back to the question

clrscr doesn't exist, use system("cls"):

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    cout << "Hello there!" << endl;
    system("pause");
    system("cls");

    return 0;
}

Note - MSVC will put a pause at the end, but it only appears when you run the program through the IDE (i.e. with Ctrl-F5). The actual compiled program is as you've written it.

[[praetorian]]

You can use system("anything")...........where anything is something that can be interpreted by dos........

[nightjam]

Now I realise all my dos commands won't work

cant use getdate function so now I'm tryign to figure how to read the system date using Visual C???

[CornedBee]

a TM struct contains that information. It is declared in time.h, but I forgot how to get it ( you extract it from a time_t that you get by calling time()).