trouble with pointer to object

Hi All,
I have a class called CLine, and have declared a pointer by

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CLine *pWhichGen;

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I then point it to an object in an array by:

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pWhichGen = &LineArray[0];

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I then want to be able to view the members of LineArray[0] through the pointer. One of these members is

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int m_LineCrosses.

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When I then put in a statement like

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int TwoLines = pWhichGen.m_LineCrosses

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I get the error

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error C2228: left of '.m_LineCrosses' must have class/struct/union type

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Does anyone know how to do what i'm trying?
Many thanks
Dylan

int TwoLines = pWhichGen.m_LineCrosses

Here I think you need:
int TwoLines = pWhichGen->m_LineCrosses

thats the trick
thank you very much

The explanation is that pWhichGen is a pointer. Pointers do not have members--they are addresses--but the objects they point to do have members. To access the object pWhichGen points to, you would refer to it as *pWhichGen and to access the members of *pWhichGen you would need to do this:

(*pWhichGen).m_LineCrosses

but that's cumbersome notation, so you're able to use this notation instead:

pWhichGen->m_LineCrosses.