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hicksca
hicksca

Reputation: 67

Initialize an array inside of a struct (w/ and array of values)

Is it possible to initialize an array with values inside of a structure in C?

#include <stdio.h>

struct student{
    int student_number[2];
    };

int main(void){

    struct student {
        int student_number = {35434, 56343};
    }

    struct student example_student;

    printf("%i \n", example_student.student_number[0]);


    return 0;
}

Edit: Thanks, Eric P, this cleared this up some of the confusion I was having with other examples I came across.

Edit of the above code to show fix:

struct student{
    int student_number[2];
};

int main(void){

    struct student example_student = {
        .student_number = {35434, 56343}
    };

    printf("%i \n", example_student.student_number[0]);

Upvotes: 2

Views: 57

Answers (1)

Eric Postpischil
Eric Postpischil

Reputation: 224596

You can initialize a structure object when you define it, and that includes initializing an array member inside the structure:

struct student example_student = { { 35434, 56343 } };

You can also specifically identify the structure member you want to initialize:

struct student example_student = { .student_number = { 35434, 56343 } };

Upvotes: 4

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