C++ How to Program, 10/e

22.2 Structure Definitions

Consider the following structure definition:

struct Card {
   string face;
   string suit;
};

Keyword struct introduces the definition for structure Card. The identifier Card is the structure name and is used in C++ to declare variables of the structure type (in C, the type name of the preceding structure is struct Card). Card’s definition contains two string members—face and suit.

The following declarations

Card oneCard;
Card deck[52];
Card* cardPtr;

declare oneCard to be a structure variable of type Card, deck to be an array with 52 elements of type Card and cardPtr to be a pointer to a Card structure. Variables of a given structure type can also be declared by placing a comma-separated list of the variable names between ...