The members of a structure are usually processed individually, as separate entity. A structure member can be accessed by writing structure_variable.member Here, structure_variable refers to the name of a structure-type variable and member refers to the name of a member within the structure. Again, dot that separates the variable name from the member name. In the case of nested structure (if a structure member is itself a structure), the member within inner structure is accessed as structure_variable.member.submember ...
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