Thread: function as structure variable

Hello,

I'm following this video Tic Tac Toe using c - YouTube to develop a Tictactoe game. In which the developer is using a structure and it's declared like this

Code:

struct myDataType {
    int a;
    char b;
}inputValue();

and then use a function

Code:

struct myDataType inputValue() {

}

Is inputValue() a stricture variable??
Can someone explain to me the syntax of this? with an example if possible??



I've only see structures define as below so far

Code:

struct test {
    int test_member1;
    char test_member1;
}test_variable;

No, inputValue() is a function that returns a structure. Although, IMO that code should be written as:

Code:

struct myDataType {
    int a;
    char b;
};

struct myDataType inputValue();

This IMO is much clearer as to the intent of the statement.

So just like creating a structure variable we can create a function that return a structure.

Can you show a simple example to me??