outputting a structure in C

[BlueJack]

Hi all,

I have a structure and I don't know what it is made of. Could somebody tell me how to output/dump a structure to the screen in a command prompt environment using C.

Joe

[Lakshmipathi]

I'm unable to understand your problem ..
This is what i understood ,"You have some raw data and you can't able read it because don't know it's structure format" --is this your problem?
please explain bit..may be someone will help.

[BlueJack]

I have a complex structure that doesn't seem to be able to be output using standard printf methods. Just wondered if there was another way to dump it to
screen

[Javasnob]

Unlike Java, Python, or Ruby, there's no "to string" function that goes along with each structure in C. If you want to output a structure, you pretty much have to know what it's made of. There are two solutions I can think of:

* Compile your problem with debugging info (-g), run it through the debugger, and print the structure from there. gdb knows how to print a structure.

* Find the declaration of the structure (if you can use it, it must be in a file you included) and go from that.