array of structs in C
- by Hristo
I'm trying to create an array of structs and also a pointer to that array. I don't know how large the array is going to be, so it should be dynamic. My struct would look something like this:
typedef struct _stats_t
{
int hours[24]; int numPostsInHour;
int days[7]; int numPostsInDay;
int weeks[20]; int numPostsInWeek;
int totNumLinesInPosts;
int numPostsAnalyzed;
} stats_t;
... and I need to have multiple of these structs for each file (unknown amount) that I will analyze. I'm not sure how to do this. I don't like the following approach because of the limit of the size of the array:
# define MAX 10
typedef struct _stats_t
{
int hours[24]; int numPostsInHour;
int days[7]; int numPostsInDay;
int weeks[20]; int numPostsInWeek;
int totNumLinesInPosts;
int numPostsAnalyzed;
} stats_t[MAX];
So how would I create this array? Also, would a pointer to this array would look something this?
stats_t stats[];
stats_t *statsPtr = &stats[0];
Thanks,
Hristo
