[Dev-C++] Statement Help/explaination

[Michael D. S. <for...@hi...>]

Can anyone, please, help me explain this statement?

I know I don't know C, but most of it at least kind of looks like familiar 
things from other languages. I don't get it. It doesn't even look like a 
valid statement. I have no idea where  to start to look it up. It's not an 
'if' or a 'print' or a loop, or a math statement, or anything you could 
look up. It's just there and the compiler says it's a parse error.

    RASCONNSTATUS rasConnStatus;

The rest of the subroutine is below if that helps but my main focus at the 
moment is the purpose of this statement.

BTW, I tried sticking an = in there and that blew up even worse :)

ms






void wd_hangup (HRASCONN x_conn)
{
    RasHangUp (x_conn);


   // Wait for a second before checking to see if it's been disconnected.
   //
    Sleep (1000);


   // Keep checking in a loop until the connection is no longer valid.
   //
    RASCONNSTATUS rasConnStatus;


    rasConnStatus.dwSize = sizeof (RASCONNSTATUS);


    while (RasGetConnectStatus (x_conn, &rasConnStatus) != 
ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE)
    {
      // Wait a bit before checking again.
      //
       Sleep (250);
    }