9. Chapter 11 Structured Data - compscisi/Programming-Fundamentals-1-SI GitHub Wiki

Example of a struct Declaration

More on structs

• MUST have a ; after the closing }
• Struct names being with Upper case letter
• Struct declaration does not allocate memory or create variables

Use the dot (.) operator to refer to members of struct variables:

  cin >> stu1.studentID;
  getline(cin, stu1.name);
  stu1.gpa = 3.75;

To display the contents of a struct variable, must display each field separately, using the dot operator:

  cout << bill; // won’t work
  cout << bill.studentID << endl;
  cout << bill.name << endl;
  cout << bill.yearInSchool;
  cout << " " << bill.gpa;

Cannot compare struct variables directly:

  if (bill == william) // won’t work

Instead, must compare on a field basis:

  if (bill.studentID == william.studentID)