Meaning & use
Struct
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In computer programming, a composite data type that groups together variables of different types under one name.
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The programmer defined a struct to store a customer's name, ID, and balance together.
In C, accessing a field of a struct uses the dot operator.
A note on using this word
Short for 'structure,' the term is a keyword in languages like C, C++, and Rust for bundling related data fields together.
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recordcomposite type
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