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Anonymous Structures

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A Microsoft C extension allows you to declare a structure variable within another structure without giving it a name. These nested structures are called anonymous structures. C++ does not allow anonymous structures.

You can access the members of an anonymous structure as if they were members in the containing structure.

Example

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// anonymous_structures.c
#include <stdio.h>

struct phone
{
    int  areacode;
    long number;
};

struct person
{
    char   name[30];
    char   gender;
    int    age;
    int    weight;
    struct phone;    // Anonymous structure; no name needed
} Jim;

int main()
{
    Jim.number = 1234567;
    printf_s("%d\n", Jim.number);   
}

Reference

struct (C++)

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