C prog: printing values from array of structures

[chroot]

Your function should look like this:

void print_name(struct pers_info record) {
    ...
}

And the code calling it should look like:

for (int n=0;n<5;n++)
   print_name(arr[n]);

Passing a struct by value is no different than passing any other kind of variable by value.

- Warren

 

[plover]

print_names(struct pers_info arr[n]);

You don't need to include the type when passing an argument (except for type casts, which is not what's required here).

 

[Math Is Hard]

Your function should look like this:

void print_name(struct pers_info record) {
    ...
}

record? Does that mean one of the individual structures I made? thanks. Record isn't a keyword is it?

 

[plover]

record is a keyword in Pascal (I think), not in C though.

In chroot's example, it's just the name of the argument.

 

[chroot]

When you create a function, you can call the variables it receives by any names you'd like. Even if the calling function referred to a hunk of data as arr[n], the called function can choose to call that incoming hunk of data anything it wants. In this case, I chose the word 'record' to refer to the variable being passed into the print_name function. It's not a reserved word in C, and means, well, nothing -- you can call it aStudent if you want, or theThingy, too.

- Warren

 

[Math Is Hard]

HOLY COW! IT'S WORKING! Here's the function.

void print_names(struct pers_info record)
{
printf("%s -- %s \n", record.pers_name.last, record.ssn);
}

 

[Math Is Hard]

Thank You!

This the output:

Adams -- 123456123
Burke -- 623001200
Cooper -- 423456999
Dodd -- 327856909
Eggwhite -- 563456929
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