Thread: Initialising the structure

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    Initialising the structure

    Code:
    struct X
    {
          char a[10];
          char b[10];
    };
    
    struct X x;
    memset(&x,0x20,sizeof(x));
    will it initialize all the variable in structure to spaces?

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    Code:
    struct X
    {
          char a[10];
          char b[10];
    };
    
    struct X x;
    memset(&x,0x20,sizeof(struct X));
    will it initialize all the variable in structure to spaces?

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    Yes, but it will not add any '\0' so a & b are still invalid strings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
    Yes, but it will not add any '\0' so a & b are still invalid strings.
    Yes that's i got the same too from below output after running the code,
    a1:### ��###
    b1:### ��###
    c1:### ��###

    But is there any possibility to acheive this.

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    Not with a single memset, no. Not any easier than just either doing it in the first place by hand, or by calling strncpy or something.
    Code:
    struct foo bar = { "...9 spaces...", "...9 spaces..." };

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