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Sounds like you are a PC based programmer :-)

The little testprogram I posted was just for demonstration.
The screen output is not needed.

The main program is to work with the data....

thanks whiteflags and laserlight

I will read through the link itCbitC has send and play around with your suggestions.

At the beginning I was suspicious I had a problem with my hexdump output as...

Thanks itCbitC!

That's what I just remembered.
The link will help me to get back in the saddle, thanks!

As I said my program has to read a unspecified amount of data.

The struct in my example as only one element but in fact it will be a dozen more .

Reading the data in one at a time would mean...

Looks like you set me in the right direction and I will be able to answer my questions myself.

Keyword is dynamical memory allocation.

I just remembered about 20 years ago while doing pascal...

Okay, looks I have a fundamental misunderstanding here.

So what would be the correct way to address a element of a structured group with unknown array size?

In other words, I have a set of...

please explain , why does incrementing a pointer makes no sense?
I thought that if I increment a pointer it will point to the next struct.

Honestly, I think it makes no sense to have a pointer...

Hi,
I am new to the forum and also a rookie C-programmer.
So please excuse if I will ask a typical beginner question to you but this problem drives me nuts for days now.

Here is the problem:
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