C Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Sample Problem: Creating an Inventory of Books

Gwen Glenn wants to print an inventory of her books. She would like to print a variety of information for each book: title, author, publisher, copyright date, the number of pages, the number of copies, and the dollar value. Some of these items, such as the titles, can be stored in an array of strings. Other items require an array of int or an array of float. With seven different arrays, keeping track of everything can get complicated, especially if Gwen wants to generate several complete lists, one sorted by title, one sorted by author, one sorted by value, and so on. A better solution is to use one array, in which each member contains all the information about one book.

Gwen needs a data form, then, ...