Members of Structs
To access the members of the struct we declared in the previous example:
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struct book new;
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... we would use the "dot operator". Here's how it would look if we only
wanted to access one portion of the struct at a time:
new.author - This would be a string to which we have
assigned the name of the author of the book new.
new.price - would give us a floating point number and so on..
new.edition
new.title
new.callNumber
To assign values into a struct, you would access them as shown above and then
treat them as if they were a regualr variable of that type. Here are a few
examples:
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new.name = "Anne McCaffery";
new.price = 6.99;
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You can also assign on struct to another as follows:
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struct book original = new;
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Now all the information held in the struct called new is also stored in a
struct called original. Very useful!
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