User-Defined Structures
A structure or struct is a user-defined collection of data. It is superior to using arrays because each item can have a different type and a different name. In the following section, you will see the advantages of using user-defined structures.
Arrays Are Not Enough
Data often appears in groups, or aggregates. For example, in the case study in Chapter 3, “Arrays and Algorithms,” which performs a simple stock price analysis, there are five numbers for each trading day: the four prices and the trading volume. Similarly, measurements from a meteorological station would include temperatures, air pressure, wind speed and direction, and so on. In these cases, all the numbers could be floating-point numbers, so an array could ...
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