Structures allow grouping together data of different types under one name. The document defines a Book structure with fields for title, author, subject, and book ID. It then declares two Book structure variables, assigns values to their fields, and prints the field values. Structures can be passed as function arguments like ordinary variables. Pointers to structures can also be defined like pointers to other variables.
Structures allow grouping together data of different types under one name. The document defines a Book structure with fields for title, author, subject, and book ID. It then declares two Book structure variables, assigns values to their fields, and prints the field values. Structures can be passed as function arguments like ordinary variables. Pointers to structures can also be defined like pointers to other variables.
Structures allow grouping together data of different types under one name. The document defines a Book structure with fields for title, author, subject, and book ID. It then declares two Book structure variables, assigns values to their fields, and prints the field values. Structures can be passed as function arguments like ordinary variables. Pointers to structures can also be defined like pointers to other variables.
Structures allow grouping together data of different types under one name. The document defines a Book structure with fields for title, author, subject, and book ID. It then declares two Book structure variables, assigns values to their fields, and prints the field values. Structures can be passed as function arguments like ordinary variables. Pointers to structures can also be defined like pointers to other variables.
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Arrays allow to define type of variables that can hold several data items
of the same kind. Similarly structure is another user defined data type available in C that allows to combine data items of different kinds.
Structures are used to represent a record. Suppose you want to keep
track of your books in a library. You might want to track the following attributes about each book
Title
Author
Subject
Book ID
Defining a Structure To define a structure, you must use the struct statement. The struct statement defines a new data type, with more than one member. The format of the struct statement is as follows
struct [structure tag] {
member definition; member definition; ... member definition; } [one or more structure variables];
The structure tag is optional and each member definition is a normal
variable definition, such as int i; or float f; or any other valid variable definition. At the end of the structure's definition, before the final semicolon, you can specify one or more structure variables but it is optional. Here is the way you would declare the Book structure
struct Books { char title[50]; char author[50]; char subject[100]; int book_id; } book; Accessing Structure Members To access any member of a structure, we use the member access operator (.). The member access operator is coded as a period between the structure variable name and the structure member that we wish to access. You would use the keyword struct to define variables of structure type. The following example shows how to use a structure in a program
When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result
Book 1 title : C Programming
Book 1 author : Nuha Ali Book 1 subject : C Programming Tutorial Book 1 book_id : 6495407 Book 2 title : Telecom Billing Book 2 author : Zara Ali Book 2 subject : Telecom Billing Tutorial Book 2 book_id : 6495700
Structures as Function Arguments
You can pass a structure as a function argument in the same way as you pass any other variable or pointer.
When the above code is compiled and executed, it produces the following result
Book title : C Programming
Book author : Nuha Ali Book subject : C Programming Tutorial Book book_id : 6495407 Book title : Telecom Billing Book author : Zara Ali Book subject : Telecom Billing Tutorial Book book_id : 6495700
Pointers to Structures You can define pointers to structures in the same way as you define pointer to any other variable
