Thread: Referencing pointer inside a structure pointer

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    Referencing pointer inside a structure pointer

    Hi


    I have a structure as follows

    Code:
    struct arptCd
    {
        char code[ARPCDLEN];
    
    };
    
    struct arptList
    {
            struct arptCd arpt;
            struct arptCd *next;
    };
    
    struct halfTurnTime
    {
    
            struct arptList *arpt;
            float pctMgtArr;
            float pctMgtDep;
            float minmDep;
            float minmArr;
    
    };
    
    struct halfTurnTimeList{
            struct halfTurnTime halfTurnTimeData;
            struct halfTurnTime *next;
    };
    Here halfTurnTimeList is a linked list whose first element is pointer to arptList which is another linked list. I have allocated memory of halfTurnTimeList and pute it into variable name called node. I have created the linked list of arpt.But when i am trying to assign address of first note into the first element of halfTurnTimeList by following assignment

    node->arpt=firstArptNode

    Compiler showing error "struct halfTurnTimeListâ has no member named arpt".

    I made following task


    struct halfTurnTimeList *node=NULL
    node=calloca as halfTurnTimeList
    created linked list of Arpt node
    node->arpt=firstArptNode. firstArptNode is the address of the first node.


    How can i access a pointer member of structure pointer.

    Thanks in advance
    Sas

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    node is of type halfTurnTimeList, which only has 2 elements, halfTurnTimeData and next. It's halfTurnTimeData that is of type halfTurnTime and has an element named aprt. Thus, you need node->halfTurnTimeData->arpt = firstArptNode.

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    Thanks a lot for pointing out the error.

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