how does i access the structure variable by using an array of pointers to that structure..... also the structure variable is an array in this case...
say for example
how do i access the name member of emp[1]??Code:struct EMP { int no; char name[50]; char add[100]; char date[20]; }emp[2], *ptr[2];
You need to dereference the pointer, and then use a member operator. Since this is so common - a special operator exists that does both: ->
If emp[1] is a pointer to a struct, emp[1]->name returns the member name (but remember that it's going to return a pointer to the beginning of name - you can still access inidividual elements of that array by saying emp[1]->name[49], etc...)
These strcpy()s all do the same thing:
Code:struct EMP { int no; char name[50]; char add[100]; char date[20]; }emp[2], *ptr[2]; strcpy(emp[1].name, "Joe"); ptr[1] = &emp[1]; strcpy((*ptr[1]).name, "Joe"); strcpy(ptr[1]->name, "Joe");
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got it!!! thanks
