A structure is a collection of variables, referenced under one name, providing a convenient means of keeping related information together. Structure declaration forms a template which can be used to create structure objects. The variables inside a structure are called members. Generally all the members of a structure are logically related. Structure declaration precedes the keyword struct.

Consider following example:

struct address

{

char name[80];

char street[80];

char city[20];

char state[20];

};

Please note the semicolon at the end of structure declaration. This is done because a structure declaration is a statement. The type name of this structure is address. We can create structure variables using:

struct address ad1, ad2;

ad1 and ad2 are two variables of the type struct address..