Thread: Returning a pointer to a struct

I have an array of structs, each struct contains one char[16] and one int, i need a a function to return a pointer to the char[16] whena specfic event occurs.

I ahve two problems:
What type does the returning function need to be?
Is the following return statement correct:

return **structName[element].char[16]

(where char is the array name)

tia

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

struct type
{
   char c[16];
   int  i;
} array[] =
{
   {"a",0},{"b",1},{"c",2},{"d",3},{"e",4},{"f",5},{"g",6},
};

char *foo(struct type *obj, size_t size, int event)
{
   while ( size-- )
   {
      if ( obj->i == event )
      {
         return obj->c;
      }
      ++obj;
   }
   return 0;
}

int main()
{
   char *result = foo(array, sizeof array / sizeof *array, 4);
   if ( result )
   {
      puts(result);
   }
   return 0;
}

[edit]

Code:

char *foo(int event)
{
   static struct type
   {
      char c[16];
      int  i;
   } array[] =
   {
      {"a",0},{"b",1},{"c",2},{"d",3},{"e",4},{"f",5},{"g",6},
   };
   size_t i;
   for (i = 0; i < sizeof array / sizeof *array; ++i)
   {
      if ( array[i].i == event )
      {
         return array[i].c;
      }
   }
   return 0;
}