Pointers and structures

[vpawizard]

Hello,
I am really scrwed up with the following stuff:

struct employee
{
char* employee_name;
};

struct department
{
char* department_name ;
struct employee* emp; //Collection of all employees in a department
};

In main(), I wrote
struct department* company;

I want to first enter the name of department and then names of employees in that department. I tried with pointers but I must hv messed up somewhere n getting segmentation faults. Tried using array representation e.g. company[i].emp[j].employee_name . This also failed. I used new operator but it didn't help. Please tell me how do deal such things in pointers.

Thanks!!!

[horace1]

Hello,
I am really scrwed up with the following stuff:

struct employee
{
char* employee_name;
};

struct department
{
char* department_name ;
struct employee* emp; //Collection of all employees in a department
};

In main(), I wrote
struct department* company;

I want to first enter the name of department and then names of employees in that department. I tried with pointers but I must hv messed up somewhere n getting segmentation faults. Tried using array representation e.g. company[i].emp[j].employee_name . This also failed. I used new operator but it didn't help. Please tell me how do deal such things in pointers.

Thanks!!!

post your code?

[willakawill]

Hello,
I am really scrwed up with the following stuff:

struct employee
{
char* employee_name;
};

struct department
{
char* department_name ;
struct employee* emp; //Collection of all employees in a department
};

In main(), I wrote
struct department* company;

I want to first enter the name of department and then names of employees in that department. I tried with pointers but I must hv messed up somewhere n getting segmentation faults. Tried using array representation e.g. company[i].emp[j].employee_name . This also failed. I used new operator but it didn't help. Please tell me how do deal such things in pointers.

Thanks!!!

Hi you have declared a pointer to a structure. This is not an array of structures.

struct department
{
   char* department_name;
   employee emp[10];    //Collection of all employees in a department
};

int main()
{
   department *company = new department[6];
   strcpy(company[0].department_name, "Accounting");
   strcpy(company[0].emp[0].employee_name, "John Smith");
}

[vpawizard]

I figured out that I was using the pointers without initialization. Initializing them correctly solved the problems.Thanks for quick response.