Error from "invalid use of undefined type `struct '"

[HashTagTeddy]

So I'm having a bit of trouble with one of my programs.
Some of you might be familiar with this one, ha.
I want to keep the code as close to this as I can.

I'm trying to combine some files into one program but it keeps giving me this compiler error.

50 - invalid use of undefined type `struct employee'
45 - forward declaration of `struct employee'
and it does this twice.

Any idea where I'm going wrong?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define MAXNAME      40
#define PHONEFIX     4
#define PHONEEND     5

int main()
{
    void printEmployees(struct employee table[], int n);
    
    int i, n;
    
    struct phonenum
    {
           char    phoneArea[PHONEFIX];          //Phone area code.
           char    phoneMiddle[PHONEFIX];        //Middle 3 of phone #.
           char    phoneLast[PHONEEND];        //Last 4 of phone #.
    };
    
    struct employee
    {
           long    number;                     //Employee number.
           char    name[MAXNAME];              //Employee Name.
           struct  phonenum phone;             //Employee phone #;
           int     age;                        //Employee Age.
    };
    
    struct employee emptable[] =               //Listing of Employees.
    {
           {859630, "Windsor, Elizabeth  ",      "800", "467", "8336", 
    };
    
    printEmployees(emptable, sizeof(emptable)/sizeof(emptable[0]));
    
    
    system("pause");
}
    
(45)void printEmployees(struct employee table[], int n)
{
     int i;
     
     for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
(50)           printf("%s\n", table[i].name);
}

[GReaper]

Isn't it obvious? You define the struct inside main, but expect to have it available out of it. Move those struct definitions and the function prototype before main.

[HashTagTeddy]

Doesn't that make them global variables though? Because I really can't be using them that way.

[GReaper]

I assume you know about the scope of variables, right? Well, the same goes for almost everything in C.
Here you define phoneenum & employee inside main, therefore they will be unavailable once outside of main because they have gone out of scope. That is why I told you to move them outside of main.

EDIT: Note that I'm talking about the struct definitions, not the variables of those structs

[HashTagTeddy]

I assume you know about the scope of variables, right? Well, the same goes for almost everything in C.
Here you define phoneenum & employee inside main, therefore they will be unavailable once outside of main because they have gone out of scope. That is why I told you to move them outside of main.

EDIT: Note that I'm talking about the struct definitions, not the variables of those structs

Just to make sure, there's no way to keep them inside main and pass them?

[std10093]

Since many want to be educated a bit on structs and I kept writing the same example again and again, I upload it. Take a look here.
Welcome to the forum!!

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[HashTagTeddy]

I'll take a look at it thanks.

[rags_to_riches]

These:

struct phonenum
    {
           char    phoneArea[PHONEFIX];          //Phone area code.
           char    phoneMiddle[PHONEFIX];        //Middle 3 of phone #.
           char    phoneLast[PHONEEND];        //Last 4 of phone #.
    };
     
    struct employee
    {
           long    number;                     //Employee number.
           char    name[MAXNAME];              //Employee Name.
           struct  phonenum phone;             //Employee phone #;
           int     age;                        //Employee Age.
    };

define these particular structures. They are not variables, they are user-defined types. They can be moved out of main into the global scope.

[HashTagTeddy]

You guys rock, after lookin at your responses it helped a ton.

Thanks agian!
-Ted