Defining structures
Instead of storing and identifying related data as independent variables,
we prefer to "collect" it all into a single structure.
C provides a mechanism to bring related data together,
structures,
using the struct keyword.
We can now define and gather together our related data with:
// DEFINE AND INITIALIZE ONE VARIABLE THAT IS A STRUCTURE
struct {
char *name; // a pointer to a sequence of characters
int red; // in the range 0..255
int green;
int blue;
} rgb_colour = {
"DodgerBlue",
30,
144,
255
};
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We now have a single variable (named rgb_colour)
that is a structure,
and at its point of definition we have initialised each of its 4 fields.
CITS2002 Systems Programming, Lecture 5, p11, 5th August 2024.
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