I'm trying to declare, initialize, and print the contents of a structure. The last printf attempts to print a structure within a structure. Is my info initialized properly and will it print properly?
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>> Leading zeros will be preserved with a string, but not with a plain int.
Not that a leading zero for an int literal (like 01104 for example) actually means that the value should be interpreted as an octal value instead of the normal decimal value. So keeping the leading 0 there actually changes the result from what you'd expect.
Also, the name of the struct type you defined is 'struct customer' (note the lowercase s of struct - keywords in C are all lowercase only). So, when instantiating that struct, you use the complete type name followed by the name of the instance. For example :
struct customer myCustInstance;
optionally with an initialization between {}'s after it. May I suggest using an uppercase first character for the type names (ie. Customer instead of customer), and a lowercase first character for variable names (like myCustInstance) ? It makes it very easy to distinguish between types and variables.
Finally, the way you initialized the struct looks mostly ok, except for the last two fields where you forgot to leave out the field information - you should just put the desired value, so :
10000,
0
instead of :
>> int 10000,
>> struct customer * account = 0
Business Accounts
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by: mrjoltcolaPosted on 2009-04-09 at 19:45:15ID: 24113162
printf() has format specifiers for basic data types, but those do NOT include structures.
For example, you can print:
%s - string / const char array / const char *
%d - integer
%f - float
%c - single character
See below, I have modified your statements with specifiers according to the data types you declared. However, to print an array of structs or nested structs, you must write a routine to print each member, can't print the whole thing.
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