Can't seem to access the Struct within my vector

Hello, so I am trying to create a small mini program that iterates through a vector and outputs something according to a book. I have no problem understanding the problem, but I came across a problem in which the iterator doesn't access the struct inside the vector. I can't seem to figure out why thought. Logically dereferencing the iterator should give me the struct, then accessing the fields inside the struct should be simple, "(*iter).FIELD". I could be wrong though...

This is the error

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error C2039: 'name' : is not a member of 'std::vector<_Ty>'

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This is my code

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int main(){
        typedef vector<Student_info> students;

        students studs;
        Student_info record;
        string::size_type maxlen = 0;

        while(read(cin, record)){

                maxlen = max(maxlen, record.name.size());
                studs.push_back(record);
        }

        sort(studs.begin(), studs.end(), compare);

        for(students::iterator i = studs.begin(); i != studs.end(); ++i){

                cout << (*studs).name << string(maxlen + 1 - (*studs).name.size(), ' ');

                try{
                        double final_grade = grade(*studs);
                        streamsize prec = cout.precision();
                        cout << setprecision(3) << final_grade << setprecision(prec);
                }

                catch(domain_error e){
                        cout << e.what();
                }
                cout << endl
        }
        return 0;
}

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This is my struct that I have located in another header file.

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typedef std::vector<double> homework;

struct Student_info{
        std::string name;
        double midterm, final;
        homework hw;
};

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Your iterator is i, but you're using studs as if IT were the iterator.

Also, although you can use (*i).name

it's usually done

i->name

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Originally Posted by dnguyen1022

Logically dereferencing the iterator should give me the struct, then accessing the fields inside the struct should be simple, "(*iter).FIELD". I could be wrong though...

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It should, but unfortunately, your code isn't using the iterator, it's using the vector:

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cout << (*studs).name << string(maxlen + 1 - (*studs).name.size(), ' ');

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Replace studs with i on that line.