Chapter 4. Structures
We’ve seen variables of simple data types, such as float, char, and int. Variables of such types represent one item of information: a height, an amount, a count, and so on. But just as groceries are organized into bags, employees into departments, and words into sentences, it’s often convenient to organize simple variables into more complex entities. The C++ construction called the structure is one way to do this.
The first part of this chapter is devoted to structures. In the second part we’ll look at a related topic: enumerations.
Structures
A structure is a collection of simple variables. The variables in a structure can be of different types: Some can be int, some ...
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