Thread: Passing structure data to a function?

Hey all... I was wondering what's the proper syntax for passing structure ints/chars, whatevers to a function... here's my function:

void hi_val (int, int);

It takes arguments, but no return type. I want to pass two ints to it... one is an int from function main and another is from a structure (struct employee[100].salary) ... do I even need the [100]? I can't seem to figure this out. TIA.

Update - I need to pass an int and a int from a structure.... I have no idea how to do this. Please help.

Update - I need to pass an int and a int from a structure.... I have no idea how to do this. Please help.

if you have

Code:

void funct(int a, int b) {...}

then you can call it like so

Code:

funct(struct1.num, struct2.num);

I think

And then how do you define the function? Sorry, I'm just really confused... what you said before just results in more errors.

Haven't done pointers yet.... So I'm supposed to do the program w/out them. TIA.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string.h>

				  
			    struct employees
			
		   		  {
				   		   int salary;
						   char firstname[40];
						   char lastname[40];
						   char departmentname[40];	   
				  } employee[50];
				  
				  
				/* struct departments
		   
		   		  {
				   			int department_number;
							char department_name;
				  } department; */
				  
				  
void main()

	 {
	 
	  	   int x, y, z;
		   int nmbrofdeps;
		   int nmbrofeps;
		   int tmp, strtmp;
		   int op1, op2; 
		   
		   char dprtmnt_in[40];
		   
		   void high_val(struct employees emp_data);
		   
		   //employee[0].salary=0;
		   //employee[0].firstname='df';
		   //employee[0].lastname='df';
		   //employee[0].departmentname='df';
		   
		   						  printf("Please enter the following data.");
								  printf("\nHow many employees' data would you like to enter?");
								  scanf("%d", &nmbrofeps);
								  
								  for(x=1; x<=nmbrofeps; x++)
								  		   {
										   		printf("\nEnter Employee's First Name : ");
												scanf("%s", &employee[x].firstname);
												printf("\nEnter Employee's Last Name : ");
												scanf("%s", &employee[x].lastname);
												printf("\nEnter Employee's Salary : ");
												scanf("%d", &employee[x].salary);
												printf("\nEnter Employee's Department Name : ");
												scanf("%s", &employee[x].departmentname);
											}

menustart:									 			clrscr();
																						printf("\n\n\t\t########Options########");
																						printf("\n\t\t1 - See Employee listing under a Department.");
																						printf("\n\t\t2 - Find Employee with the highest salary in a Department.");
																						printf("\n\t\t3 - Find Employee with the highest salary from all Departments.");
																						printf("\n\t\t4 - Exit Program.");
optionreset:																															
																						printf("\n\n\n\nEnter your choice here: ");
																						scanf("%d", &op1);
																						
																						switch(op1)
																								   {
																								   		 case 1: break;
																										 	  	 	
																										 case 2: goto hds;
																										 	  	 	
																										 case 3: goto hs;
																										 	  	 	 
																										 case 4: goto end;
																										 	  	
																													  
																										default: printf("Only enter a number from the options please.");
																												    goto menustart;
																									}

											
				clrscr();

											printf("\n\nType a department name to list all of it's employees.");
											printf("\nHere are the department names you have inputted.");
											
														 for(y=1; y<=nmbrofeps; y++)
														 		  {
																				printf("\n%s", employee[y].departmentname);
																  }
														printf("\n\n\n");		  
														scanf("%s", &dprtmnt_in);
														
																				 
																				 for(z=1; z<=nmbrofeps; z++)
																				 		  {
																						   				strtmp=strcmp(employee[z].departmentname, dprtmnt_in);
																						   				if(strtmp==0)
																													 {
																													  		printf("\n\n");
																															printf("\nEmployee's First Name : %s", employee[z].firstname);
																															printf("\nEmployee's Last Name : %s", employee[z].lastname);
																															printf("\nEmployee's Salary : %d", employee[z].salary);
																															printf("\nEmployee's Department : %s", employee[z].departmentname);
																															printf("\n\n");
																															getch();
																															goto menustart;
																												 	 }
																										if(strtmp!=0)
																													 {
																													  		printf("\nNo such Department exists.");
																															goto menustart;
																													 }			 
																													 
																													 
																						 }
																															
																															



hds:						high_val(employee);

hs:
																								
																								
																								
																													
																															
																															
																					
end:																			
																					
																					getch();
																					
																					
						}
						
						
		void high_val(struct employees emp_data)
		
		// high val function //

Yeah, a LOT of tabs... but I use this program that inputs them for no real reason... sorry for that. TIa.