Editing C syntax (section)

====Assignment====
Assigning values to individual members of structures and unions is syntactically identical to assigning values to any other object. The only difference is that the ''lvalue'' of the assignment is the name of the member, as accessed by the syntax mentioned above.

A structure can also be assigned as a unit to another structure of the same type. Structures (and pointers to structures) may also be used as function parameter and return types.

For example, the following statement assigns the value of 74 (the ASCII code point for the letter 't') to the member named ''x'' in the structure ''tee'', from above:

<syntaxhighlight lang=C>tee.x = 74;</syntaxhighlight>

And the same assignment, using ''ptr_to_tee'' in place of ''tee'', would look like:

<syntaxhighlight lang=C>ptr_to_tee->x = 74;</syntaxhighlight>

Assignment with members of unions is identical.