Modern C for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to the C Programming Language

© Slobodan Dmitrović 2021

S. DmitrovićModern C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6643-4_15

15. Structures

Slobodan Dmitrović¹  

(1)

Belgrade, Serbia

 

A structure is a type that has members. These members can be variables of other types.

15.1 Introduction

The structure declaration is of the following syntax:

struct some_name

{

      type_name member_name_1;

      type_name member_name_2;

      // ...

};

A structure is also a type. The name of this type is the name of the structure. A structure is a collection of variables, an excellent way to group the variables and organize data.

Let us write a simple example that declares a structure with three members:

#include <stdio.h>

struct MyStruct

{

      char c;

      int x;

      double d;

};

int main(void) ...