issue with struct assignment.....

[sanddune008]

Hi All,

1. How to acess the member name.
2. I am trying to fill the name with "Sanny". Vc++ IDE generates exception
on \return.
3. what is wrong with following assignment.


struct profile
{
int Rid;
char *name;
}emp;

int main()
{
printf("\n Enter the Rid and name");
scanf("%d",&emp.Rid);
scanf("%s",emp.name);
//puts(Danoop->name);
//gets(Danoop.name);
//printf("\n%s",Danoop.name);
return 0;
}

[donbock]

@sanddune008
The 'name' field of the structure is large enough to hold a pointer to a string -- not the string itself. You need to allocate a buffer, copy the string into the buffer, and then put the address of the buffer into the 'name' field.