C Primer Plus®, Third Edition

Chapter Summary

A C structure provides the means to store several data items, usually of different types, in the same data object. You can use a tag to identify a specific structure template and to declare variables of that type. The membership dot operator (.) enables you to access the individual members of a structure by using labels from the structure template.

If you have a pointer to a structure, you can use the pointer and the indirect membership operator (->) instead of a name and the dot operator to access individual members. To find the address of a structure, use the & operator. Unlike arrays, the name of a structure does not serve as the address of the structure.

Traditionally, structure-related functions have used pointers to structures ...