Converting a struct members to a string, c newbie!

Hi there.

I am trying to make a client for use with an sntp server.

The idea is that I send a datagram via the udp socket system to the server containing the current computer time and it responds with the accurate time which I can then compare and update the clock as necessary.

So, I have a struct that creates bitfields in order to build the required packet:

Code:

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struct {
int mode:3;
long long timestamp:64;
} message

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Obviously there are many more fields.

Now I want to send that using the usual socket send command. However, the send command takes a string as the thing to be sent.

So how do I take each member of the struct, convert it to a string and build up the total string that I need to send, ie put all of the struct memebrs into one long string?

I am new to C and finding it very difficult so any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Daniel

>>However, the send command takes a string as the thing to be sent.<<
Are you talking about the send() function? If so, you can do this if you want to send the struct itself:

send(socket, &mystruct, sizeof(mystruct), 0);

But its going to depend on what the server is expecting to receive.