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If you wanted to store the name Smith in the LastName variable and the
number 24 in the Age variable, inside the Employee variable, you could do
the following:
Employee.FirstName = “Joe”
Employee.Age = “24”
Retrieving data
After you store data in a structure, you can always retrieve it again. Just
identify
✦ The variable that represents that structure
✦ The actual variable name that holds the data
Suppose you defined a structure, as follows:
Structure Workers
Dim Name as String
Dim ID as Integer
Dim Salary as Single
End Structure
Before you can store any data in a structure, you must first declare a variable
to represent that structure like this:
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Dim Employees as Workers
Now you can store and retrieve data from a structure, as follows:
‘ This stores a name in the Employees structure
Employees.Name = “Jessie Balkins”
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and Arrays
To retrieve data from this structure, identify the variable name that represents
that structure and the variable that holds the data like this:
Print Employees.Name
This would retrieve the data in the Name variable, stored in the Employees
variable structure, and print Jessie Balkins on-screen.
Structures are just a way to cram multiple variables into a single variable. A
structure can hold only one group of related data. To make structures more
useful, programmers typically use structures with another data structure or
an array.