struct syntax in c

[Yusuf]

Hi friends, I'm reading and reading page 128-130 of K&R ANSI edition
and I cannot understand structs. My most simple program gives me the
error

t2.c:10: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before
'.' token

I know this is a trivial question to members of this group so could
someone put me on the right track with the syntax. My c program,
compiled with gcc4.1 is below. The error line, line 10, is "
test.testint=1;"

Thank you
Yusuf

struct teststr
{
int testint;
long testlong;
short testshort;
};

struct teststruct test;

test.testint=1;

int main(void)
{
return 0;
}

 

[Skarmander]

Hi friends, I'm reading and reading page 128-130 of K&R ANSI edition
and I cannot understand structs. My most simple program gives me the
error

You don't have a problem with structs.

struct teststr
{
int testint;
long testlong;
short testshort;
};

struct teststruct test;

test.testint=1;

Statements cannot appear outside functions. Declarations can.

int main(void)
{

Put the declaration and the assignment here.

return 0;
}

S.

 

[Yusuf]

Thank you so much. As you can guess, I'm learning c.
Regards
Yusaf

struct teststruct
{
int testint;
long testlong;
short testshort;
};

int main(void)
{
struct teststruct test;
test.testint=1;
return 0;
}