11/16/05 CISC105 Lecture Notes

We looked at some of the sample code for project 3:

http://copland.udel.edu/~pconrad/cisc105/05F/work/proj/proj3

In particular, in the file hiking.h:

struct Hiking_S
{
  char name[HIKING_TRAIL_NAME_LEN]; 
  char location[HIKING_TRAIL_LOCATION_LEN]; 
  double lengthInMiles;
  char state[HIKING_TRAIL_STATE_LEN];
  int numTimesHiked;
};

Terminology:
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The fields numTimesHiked and lengthInMiles are called "scalars".

They are scalars becuase they are NOT arrays.

The other three fields:

  name, location, state

are all arrays of char, that are located inside the struct.

The five things in the struct:

   name, location, lengthInMiles, state, numTimesHiked

are all called "members" of the struct, or "fields" in the struct