Is it possible to increment through the fields of a structure using an index value.
If I had a structure like:
And say I wanted to populate the fields of the structure within a loop like:Code:typedef struct { int field1; int field2; int field3; } mystruct;
Code:mystruct aStruct; for ( index = 0 ; index == 3; index++) { aStruct.index = 10; }
Where index will refer to the field number in the structure?
Try an array:Code:typedef struct { int field[3]; } mystruct; mystruct aStruct; for ( index = 0 ; index < 3; index++) { aStruct.field[index] = 10; }
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Cant do, there will be string fields in the stucture as well. Which I think answers my question in a slightly different way. Because unless I program in the loop which fields are strings and which are integers, it will not know whether to do a strcpy or an integer assignment, in which case it will probably be better handling each field of the structure sequentially and just having a very long function.
Unless you make each member of your struct into a union containing strings and integers, and something to discriminate which one you have at any moment, then it's lots of code to treat each member of the struct separately.
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