Thread: Structures: a yes/no question.

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    Structures: a yes/no question.

    I want to know if you can have a struct with a component that is a pointer to an array of indeterminate length? Say something like:

    Code:
    struct log {
      int registration_number;
      int *scores;
    }
    where "scores" is not necessarily the same from log to log. I suppose you must be able to do this if you can include strings which differ from struct to struct in a struct, which I think you can.

    Yay or nay?

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    Yes, but you probably want some variable in that struct to store the actual number of elements pointed to by the pointer...

    Code:
    struct log {
      int registration_number;
      int size;
      int *scores;
    }
    Whenever you dynamically allocate an array of X ints for example and store that pointer in scores, you can set size to X as well. When you later attempt to access scores you will then know how many elements there are in this particular instance of struct log so you don't end up doing some loop that overruns memory.
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    Thanks

    Thankyou. I was aware of the size issue and I forgot to include an int number_of_games thingie.

    Thanks again

    (PS: I broke #1 rule of the board and didn't check elsewhere before posting - it was in prelude's (excellent) corner in her section about structures. Sincere apologies to all.)

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