Data Structures In C/c++

Front 1

What is meant by a 'struct'?

Back 1

A 'data structure', a complex data type created by the user.

Front 2

How do you declare a struct?

Back 2

struct item

{

char field1;

int field2;

... //etc

};

Front 3

How do you type-define a struct?

How do you declare it in main?

Back 3

typedef struct item item

int main()

{

item myVariable;

}

Front 4

What is the syntax used to access a field of a struct? How?

Back 4

'fied selector notation' (symolised as a dot operator).

myVariable.field1;

Front 5

How do you rapidly create many instances of a struct?

Back 5

Using an array.

item list[SIZE];

... //Then treat each index as its own variable

list[i].field2;