Dot operator in C language

Dot operator is used to access(or assign) the values of data members in a structure.  It is represented as follows:

structure_variable.data_member = value;

struct student {

     char sex;

     int rank;

}obj;

• obj is structure variable
• student is structure name or tag
• sex and rank are data members

Let us try to assign values to data members in structure student using dot operator.

obj.sex = 'M'; //'M' is assigned to data member sex

obj.rank = 1; // 1 is assigned to data member rank

Example:

  #include <stdio.h>
  #include <string.h>
  struct student {
        char name[100];
        int rank;
  }obj;

  int main() {
        strcpy(obj.name, "jp");
        obj.rank = 5;
        printf("Name:%s\n", obj.name);
        printf("Rank:%d\n", obj.rank);
        return 0;
  }

  Output:

  jp@jp-VirtualBox:~/$ ./a.out
  Name:jp
  Rank:5

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