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Structures

This document provides an overview of programming fundamentals related to structures in C++. It defines a structure as a collection of variables of similar or dissimilar types related in nature. Structures allow storing multiple data types together, like storing the name, price, and number of pages for a book. It describes how to declare a structure type, declare structure variables, define elements, access elements using a dot operator, and create arrays of structures.

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Structures

This document provides an overview of programming fundamentals related to structures in C++. It defines a structure as a collection of variables of similar or dissimilar types related in nature. Structures allow storing multiple data types together, like storing the name, price, and number of pages for a book. It describes how to declare a structure type, declare structure variables, define elements, access elements using a dot operator, and create arrays of structures.

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Programming Fundamental

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Today’s lecture outline
• Structures
• Declaring a structure
• Accessing structure elements
• How structure elements are stored
• Array of structure

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Structure
• Variable can store single value of one type
• Array can store multiple values of similar type
• Structure can store multiple values of similar or dissimilar type
• Structures are a collection of variables related in nature, but not
necessarily in data type

Book Name Price Pages


Let us C 550.50 728
Kite runner 500.75 336

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Why use structures
• Suppose we want to store data about a book
• You might want to store book’s
• name (a string),
• price (a float)
• number of pages (an int).
• If data about say 3 such books is to be stored, then we can follow two
approaches:
– Construct three arrays, one for storing names, second for storing prices and third
for number of pages
– Use of structure variables

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Cont.
• Three separate array approaches
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3

0 1 2 0 1 2 0 1 2
name[] price[] pages[]

• Structure variable
s1 s2 s3
name
price
pages

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Three separate array approach

Go to program

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Structure approach

Go to program
b1 b2 b3
name
price
pages 7
Structure definition

• Memory will not be allocated when you write structure definition


• This is just to tell the C++ compiler that what are the elements of a
variable of this structure
• This statement defines a new data type called struct book

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Declaring structure variable

• This statement declare three variables b1, b2 and b3 of struct book


type.
• Now the memory will be allocated for these three variables
• These bytes are always in adjacent memory locations

b1 b2 b3
name
price
pages
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Cont.
• Structure definition and declaration of structure variables can
be combined

Variable declaration Structure definition


Variable declaration
Definition

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Variable initialization
• Structure variable can be initialize at declare time as well from
the input by user

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Scope of structure
• Local scope
– If the structure is define inside any function, it will only be
accessible within that function
• Global scope
– If structure is define outside function, it will be accessible to
all the function in that program

Go to program

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Accessing Structure Elements
• In arrays individual elements are accessed using a subscript
• A dot (.) operator is used with structure variable name to access
individual element of structure
• For example

b1.price = 100.75;
b1.pages = 450;
strcpy(b1.name, “let us c”);

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Array of Structures

Go to program

0 1 2 3 4
b[5]

price pages name[10]


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Additional feature
• The values of a structure variable can be assigned to another structure
variable of the same type using the assignment operator

15
Cont.
• One structure can be nested within another structure

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