Programming in C

190 Chapter 9 Working with Structures

Figure 9.3 The array months.

Structure Variants

You do have some flexibility in defining a structure. First, it is valid to declare a variable

to be of a particular structure type at the same time that the structure is defined.This is

done simply by including the variable name (or names) before the terminating semi-

colon of the structure definition. For example, the statement

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'a'

'n'

'F'

'M'

[0]

[1]

[2]

.name

'J'

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'e'

'b'

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'a'

'r'

'A'

'p'

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[0]

[1]

[2]

.name

[0]

[1]

[2]

.name

[0]

[1]

[2]

.name

numberOfDays

numberOfDays

numberOfDays

numberOfDays

months[0]

months[1]

months[2]

months[3]

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'e'

'c'

[0]

[1]

[2]

.name

'D'

numberOfDays

months[11]

'r'