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How do you pass an array of pointers to structures to a function?

How do you pass an array of pointers to structures to a function? (Computer science one · Passing Arrays of Structures) — "Nevertheless, as we’ve previously se…

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Computing the average GPA from an array of pointers to Student structures
Maintaining an array of pointers can be preferable in this context.
The function receives a roster of Student pointers and its size n.
The running sum is initialized to 0.0.
The loop processes each roster element while i is less than n.
Each student's GPA is added to the running sum.
The average is returned as sum divided by n.
The gpa member is accessed with the arrow operator instead of the dot operator.

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How do you pass an array of pointers to structures to a function?

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"Nevertheless, as we’ve previously seen it is sometimes preferable to maintain an array of pointers to structures. If we had an array of pointers, we would have a function that looks something like the following.\n\n/**\n\n* Computes the average GPA of the Student structures in\n\n* the given roster (which is of size n).\n\n*/\n\ndouble computeAverageGpa(const Student **roster, int n) {\n\ndouble sum = 0.0;\n\nint i;\n\nfor(i=0; i<n; i++) {\n\nsum += roster[i]->gpa;\n\n}\n\nreturn sum / n;\n\n}\n\nThe only difference here is in how we access the gpa member variable using the arrow operator instead of the dot operator."

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