Thread: how to use malloc with a struct?

Ok here is a portion of my code...

Code:

struct studentGrades2
{
     char lastName[30];
     char firstName[30];
     int grade1, grade2, grade3, grade4, grade5;      
};

int numberOfRecords = 11;

struct studentGrades2 *grades2;

grades2 = malloc(numberOfRecords * sizeof(int));

grades2[1].lastName = "morris";

Every time I try to compile I get the message: Incompatible types in assignment, where I try to set the lastName = to "morris"

What am I doing wrong? I've been at this for hours

>grades[1].lastName = "morris";
Use strcpy to copy strings:

Code:

#include <string.h>
.
.
strcpy(grades[0].lastName, "morris");

And arrays start at 0, not 1.

And check your malloc call, you're not allocating enough memory for your structure.

>grades2 = malloc(numberOfRecords * sizeof(int));
The part in red is where you want to tell malloc how big each record is. Let the compiler do the work for you by taking the sizeof the first element of the array.

Code:

grades2 = malloc(numberOfRecords * sizeof(*grades2));

>grades[1].
I also notice you have grades instead of grades2, which is your declaration. I'd change the name of the array to grades.