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Subject: Dynamic struct's
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Date: 8 May 91 06:38:17 GMT
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I am currently working on programming a fairly simple database in C. The
program will allow the user to specify the number of fields in the database
and their names. My question is: How does one dynamically declare a struct
for accessing the correct number of fields? In other words, rather than doing

	struct	{
		int field1;
		char field2;
		int field3;
	} record;

I would like to do something like

	struct	{
		int field1;
		char field2;
		.
		.
		.
		int fieldx;
	} record;

where 'x' in 'fieldx' is the number of fields as specified by the user. Note
that the types in the struct are not important here, they're just for the
example.

Can anybody help me out on this one? I hope I explained things clearly :)

			Thanks in advance,
			David Aschbrenner