Question

I have an array ‘y’ with x no. of elements inside it (the number ‘x’ is given by user), I need to create an array of structures which has elements of exactly the same type as that in array ‘y’ i.e the array of structures would have ‘x’ elements.

Answer 1

If I understand you right, you have an “array” of some type, and the number of elements is decided by the user. I’m guessing you allocate it using malloc like this:

type_of_y *y = malloc(x * sizeof(type_of_y));

And now you want to create a similar “array” from a structure, with the same number of elements. Why can’t you do it just like you do for y? I.e:

struct my_structure *new_array = malloc(x * sizeof(struct my_structure));