Chapter 11, Problem 44RQE

Explanation of Solution

Structure:

In C++, the structure is a user-defined data type, which contains different type of elements with different lengths.

• The size of the structure is calculated by the total number of elements which is declared in a structure.

Structure pointer operator (->):

The structure pointer operator (->) can be used with a structure pointer variable to access the members of a structure; this operator does automatically dereferences its left structure pointer.

• It can be referred as an alternative for indirection operator (*).

Example:

The following example is used to declare a function named “getValues()” and then to access the structure members using structure pointer operator (->):

//Include required header files

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

//Declare a structure

struct Values

{

//Declare the member variables

string name;

int age;

//D...