Thread: calculating total of floats that are part of a struct?

I’m an absolute beginner, of C and programming all together.
I am working with sructs that consists of 2 members(char[] and float).
No problem reading values in and printing them out but,
HOW CAN I ACCESS FLOAT VALUES AND CALCULATE THEIR TOTAL?

I had that exact same problem, and your code totally helped me out!
Thanks!

Originally Posted by quzah

Code:

struct buyaCbook
{
    char gonow[ ANDBUYABOOK ];
    float learnthebasics;
};
...
struct buyaCbook now;

now.learnthebasics = 1.0;

Something like that.


Quzah.

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it, but, unfortunately, it didn’t solve my problem.
When I sad I am a beginner I meant I have not done much coding. I have learnt a bit of theory though, and I’m familiar with accessing members of a struct, name.float and other_name->float. What I need to do is add all the float values to get their total. Values are read in with scanf(), but name.float + other_name.float = float obviously does not work. What am I missing here?

>but name.float + other_name.float = float obviously does not work.
I think u might be well wish to have 2 varaiables of type struct.

Something like this

Code:

struct buyaCbook now;
struct buyaCbook now1;
double res;

now.learnthebasics = 1.0;
now1.learnthebasics = 2.0;

res = now.learnthebasics  + now1.learnthebasics;

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