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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Initilization of global structures
Message-ID: <9036@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 2 May 90 16:53:53 GMT
References: <9005020423.AA05715@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <9005020423.AA05715@en.ecn.purdue.edu> wscott@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Wayne H Scott) writes:
} 
} I am having some problems with a program I am writing.  This might be very
} simple but I can't figure it out.
} 
} [file=globals.c]
} 	#define MAXNUM 5
} 	struct weapon {
} 		char *name;
} 		/* etc */
} 	};
} 	struct weapon wstats[] = { "knife", "sword" /* etc ... */ };

This is not doing what you think it's doing.  The outer set of { } defines
the initializer for the array.  You need an additional set of { }  for each
structure-typed element.  Try:

	struct weapon wstats[] = {
		{ "knife", /*etc*/ }, { "sword", /*etc*/ }, /* etc ... */
	};
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