Re: [Dev-C++] Question about structs...

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

> struct database[100]

No, just

struct database

> {
>   int id_number;
>   char employee_name[25];
>   int age;
>   float salary;
> };
>
> To populate it, or to access the individual records within the array, I
> would use the standard for() loops, correct? Same with the emplyee_name[]
> array?

and when you're declaring the variable,

    database employees[100];
    employee[0].age = 666;

Or, you could use vectors, like Marc said. That would translate to

vector<database> employees;

That would be valid only in C++, not in C. I assume you're working with C.
You could use dynamic memory allocation for variable sized arrays. The
functions that you would use are malloc(), realloc(), free().

Also, you ask about using a variable to index employee_name. I hope you're
not getting confused about NULL-terminated character arrays (strings).

char    name[20];

is a character array. You can use it to store arrays of characters, and if
this array is ended by a NULL-character ('\0'), it becomes a string. So in
the above example, to print the name of the first employee, you would say

    printf("%s\n", employee[0].employee_name);

*NOT*

    printf("%s\n", employee[0].employee_name[0]);

I hope I helped and didn't just confuse you further.
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