When working with Arduino, cplusplus.com is your friend. Scroll down and look on the left side under (string.h). Lot's of great char functions there.. Other useful functions such as iota() - cplusplus.com.
Here's one way to accomplish the parsing of the input data.
// Sketch uses 2064 bytes (6%) of program storage space.
// Global variables use 323 bytes (15%) of dynamic memory.
// Arduino IDE 1.8.9.
char line[] = "04-23-2020,James";
char Name[100];
unsigned int Month, Day, Year;
// Make an attempt to validate the input data.
byte Counter = 0;
void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);
char * pch = strtok(line, "-,");
while(pch != NULL){
if(Counter == 0){Month = atoi(pch);}
else if(Counter == 1){Day = atoi(pch);}
else if(Counter == 2){Year = atoi(pch);}
else if(Counter == 3){strcpy(Name, pch);}
pch = strtok(NULL, "-,");
Counter += 1;
}
// Print out the data.
if(Counter == 4){
Serial.println(Month);
Serial.println(Day);
Serial.println(Year);
Serial.println(Name);
}
else{
Serial.println("Error");
}
}
void loop(){}