Overview of Structs

Structs allow to combine multiple data types as a single data type. Access to these data types within the structs are done through the fields (members) name.

Structs become useful when you need to create a data type that you will use multiple times, requires multiple data types to define it and requires no additional functionality such as what is found in classes.

Example of a Struct

In general, a Struct defines a new data type. Below is an example of a Student.

Below is an example of how to create a student, assign values to its members and how to access them as well.

The output of the above code is as below

Summary

The previous Struct was declared before the main declaration of a C++ program. As you may have noticed it proves useful when a new data type needs to be defined.