Help with structures

[scmurphy64]

I am writing a program that will list 15 students by student number, student name, and their 5 test grades in a table while using a stucture.

examaple:
1 John Doe 94 87 56 42 99
2 Jane Doe 99 89 81 72 100

I want to prepopulate the table with the student number and the student name, and print it out to make sure the table looks ok.

The student name is a string of characters that will vary in length, and this is where I get stuck, complier is returning an "illegal zero-sized array.

I can't figure how to get the variable length students name into the table, please see code snippet, and please help

struct sgrades
{
	int number;
	char names[];
	int test1;
	int test2;
	int test3;
	int test4;
	int test5;
		
} grade[16];

struct sgrades grade[16] = {{0, 0}, {1, Jon Doe}, {2, Jane Doe}, {3, 1}, {4, 1}, {5, 1}, {6, 1}, {7, 1}, {8, 1}, {9, 1}, {10, 1}, {11, 1}, {12, 1}, {13, 1}, {14, 1}, {15, 1}};

[slingerland3g]

You can not do that. Try

char *names;  /* or use the below assignment */
char names[MAX_LEN] /*MAX_LEN can be defined prior to calling main(), ie #define MAX_LEN 25 */

[nonoob]

slingerland3g points out you need to allocate memory. For example, I'm using the hard-coded 50 for this example.

The first declaration of the structure is really just a template. So I would use typedef.

typedef struct
{
	int number;
	char names[50];
	int test1;
	int test2;
	int test3;
	int test4;
	int test5;
		
} sgrades;

sgrades grade[16] = {{0, 0}, {1, "Jon Doe"}, {2, "Jane Doe"}, {3, 1}, {4, 1}, {5, 1}, {6, 1}, {7, 1}, {8, 1}, {9, 1}, {10, 1}, {11, 1}, {12, 1}, {13, 1}, {14, 1}, {15, 1}};

Also, note I enclosed the strings with quotation marks.