Structures

Accessing Structure Members
• The . (dot) operator is used to access individual structure members
• For example:
  Bill.salary = 50000;
  accesses data member salary of variable Bill and assigns a value of 50000
  
  Bill.job_code[i] = 'X';
  accesses the i^th element of the job_code data member of variable Bill and assigns a value of X
• Similar to the built-in data types, Structure members can be accessed through pointers and references. To access members using pointers, the -> operator is utilized. For example:
  

  employee Bill, *empPtr;
  empPtr = &Bill;
  empPtr->salary = 50000;
  empPtr->job_code[i] = 'X';
  

  is equivalent to the previous code using the . (dot) operator
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