What is the use of struct in c?

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I’ve learned how to use the command in a code, but I still don’t understand exactly what it’s for. Could someone explain to me, with examples if possible, their usefulness?

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    struct is not a command, it is a data type that basically serves roughly to group other data types

  • Possible duplicate of Struct definition in C

  • @Samuelives was my mistake, I was very sleepy at the time, I ended up writing nonsense

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The struct is basically used to group variables that have a common goal and create new types of data. Technically, the struct will physically align this data in memory allowing it to be accessed by a single access point. For example: If you need to store a person’s data as 'name', 'age', 'gender', etc.. define a struct named 'person' with the data you need. 

struct pessoa {
  char *nome;
  unsigned int idade;
  char genero[1]; // M ou F
};

// Declaração da variável p utilizando a struct pessoa
struct pessoa p;

// Definição dos valores. 
p.nome = "Joao";  
p.idade = 12;
p.genero = 'M';

  • Obgd msm, now I understood, I did not know that the command was able to align the data in memory. I’d give you an upvote if I could, but you know, less than 15 points kkk

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