C Primer Plus®, Third Edition

Chapter 14. Structures and Other Data Forms

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

• keywords

  struct, union, typedef
  

• Operators

  ->
  

In this chapter, you learn what C structures are and how to create structure templates and variables. Then you learn how to access the members of a structure and how to write functions to handle structures. A short look at C's typedef facility and at unions and pointers to functions concludes the chapter.

One of the most important steps in designing a program is choosing a good way to represent the data. In many cases, a simple variable or even an array is not enough. C takes your ability to represent data a step further with the C structure variables. The C structure is flexible enough in its basic form ...