is it possible to access members of struct in loop?

[Erich Pul]

hi!

is it possible to access the members of a struct (e.g. 10 members) in a
loop, comparable to an array?

tia,

E

[Gordon Burditt]

>is it possible to access the members of a struct (e.g. 10 members) in a

loop, comparable to an array?

If you're expecting to iterate over the members of unknown name and
type, NO. You can make a table of the member names, types, and
offset (using offsetof()), and use that, but you have to keep it
up to date with the real struct, and it's messy.

If you need this, you probably want an array as a struct member.

Gordon L. Burditt

[Ian Collins]

Erich Pul wrote:

hi!

is it possible to access the members of a struct (e.g. 10 members) in a
loop, comparable to an array?

No (unless those 10 members happen to be an array!), C has nothing like
the foraech construct found in some other languages.

--
Ian Collins.

[Erich Pul]

No (unless those 10 members happen to be an array!), C has nothing like
the foraech construct found in some other languages.

thank you - i will pack the values in an array and have my loop go
through it

E

[Dave Thompson]

On 23 Jun 2006 00:12:02 -0700, "Erich Pul" <er*******@blac kbox.net>
wrote:

hi!

is it possible to access the members of a struct (e.g. 10 members) in a
loop, comparable to an array?

As others have said, no. There are two things you can do that may, or
may not, approach this closely enough for your purpose:

enum { height /* = 0 */, width /* = 1 */, depth /* etc. */, NUMDIM };
struct dims { double dim [NUMDIM /* or 3 */]; } foo;

.... volume = foo.dim[height] * foo.dim[width] * foo.dim[depth]; ...

/* best not to use simple names like height because a macro
takes the identifier 'out of play' for ALL other use */
#define d_height dim[0]
#define d_width dim[1]
#define d_depth dim[2]
#define d_NUMDIM 3
struct dims { double dim [NUMDIM]; } foo;
.... volume = foo.d_height * foo.d_width * foo.d_depth; ...
- David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.ne t