accesing pointer structures

i am trying to search for a string in a structure allocated for 100 clients, just get confused on how to access variables in ptr structure for example

Code:

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struct fac
{
int a[50];
int b[50];
int c;
struct res * r;
};

struct res
{
int a1;
int b2;
};

int main ()
{
struct fac data[100];
data[100]= (struct fac *) malloc ( 4 * sizeof(struct fac))
}

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i think i allocated memory for 100 clients, now lets say i wanted to search for a string in struct fac int a , how do you locate the whole record in the structure and print it???
any help would be appreciated for some reason i have no clue how to do this

You actually only allocated memory for the 101st element in the array, which actually doesn't exist, atleast its not part of the array. If you declare an array of structs, you dont need to allocate memory for them, the declaration holds memory for them. If you need to assign them something, just do it like this:

Code:

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int main()
        int i;
        struct fac data[100];

        for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
                data[i] = someting;
        return 0;
}

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If you wanted to search through them looking at a, just do something like this:

Code:

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int main()
        int i;
        struct fac data[100];

        for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
                data[1] = someting;

        //search through the array for string a
        for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
                if (data[i].a == something)
                        //do something here for true

        return 0;
}

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ok, when looking for a string in a certain part of the structure and you find it, how do i get all info in struct where the string was located ??

if its in an array like yours is. Just use the name of the array and the element number. Say the 34th member in the array has the correct string. you would just use the array name and element number like this

Code:

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*something = data[33];

//or if you are still in the for loop and  you have an if determains is this is the right string, just say
*something = data[i];

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If you wanted those members also seperate, just say

Code:

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char blah = something->a;
char blah2 = something->b;
int blah3 = something->c;

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***By the way, you declared all the members in the struct to int, so if you meant (by your first question) for those to be char arrays, or strings, change them in the struct to char data type.;)