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sunflower
sunflower

Reputation: 69

How to iterate over an struct array passed by a function in c?

I have been trying to iterate over a struct array, but for some reason it only goes through once. I am still trying to get the hang of c and its use of pointers. For the function, I have to use the **books array and iterate over it. For instance, I need to return how many books that cost less than $50 dollars. I don't know why it is iterating through only once.. When I use a print statement to check the "number_of_books", I get five which is the correct size of the array. Help would be appreciated!

// calling the function in main as : int b = get_cost(books, 50)

int get_cost(book **books, int cost){

    int get_book_total = 0; 
                                                                                                 
    for(int i = 0; i < number_of_books; i++){                                                                                           
          if(books[i]->cost < cost){
                 get_book_total++;
          }                                                                                                            
          return get_book_total; 
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 137

Answers (1)

guimauve
guimauve

Reputation: 423

Your return statement is in your for loop, so your function returns after the first iteration.

Upvotes: 1

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