Data Structures Using C, 2nd Edition by Pearson

40 Data Structures Using C

These statements are equivalent to the following:

float BP [20], SAL [20], GSAL [20]

typedef is also extremely useful for shortening the long and inconvenient declarations of structures.

For instance, the structure struct can be declared as a typedef as shown below:

typedef struct {

char name [20];

int age;

int roll;

char class[6];

} student;

Now the structure student has become the type and a variable of this type can be defined as:

student stud1, stud2;

The above declaration means that stud1 and stud2 are variables of type student.

1.14.1 Enumerated Data Types

A user can define a set of integer type