copy struct to class

Can anyone tell me how I can copy the contents of a struct into a class so that the class's member functions can access the data contained within the struct?

I need to be able to access a struct with the member functions of a seperate class... and I do not know how to do this.

Can't you just pass the struct as a pointer to a member function?
Eg:

Code:

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class someclass
{
public:
readstruct(somestruct * astruct);

};


readstruct(somestruct * astruct)
{
 
return astruct->somedata;


}

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Ya I assumed a pointer was involved, however i do not know how to do this... (im very very new to this)...

I mean what is the :

Code:

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return astruct->somedata;

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arrow for?

and I need to be able to copy the data from the struct into something that the class can access...

Not to mention I get errors:

:22: `mystruct' was not declared in this scope
22: `b_struct' was not declared in this scope
22: invalid data member initialization
22: (use `=' to initialize static data members)
22: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `readstruct' with no type


When I add this to my class.h file:

public:
readstruct(mystruct * b_struct);

I was just giving an example, there is no "somestuct" struct...or any value named "somedata" for that matter...

Code:

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return astruct->somedata;

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the "->" operator is basically the same as:

Code:

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return (*astruct).somedata;

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(or something like that, just use -> instead of . when working with ptrs)

I would suggest finding a good pointer tutorial and reading up on them...I'll post one if i have time, but its getting late and I have homework to do :D