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Matthew wrote:
 
> I am having a problem accessing a global structure from within a
> function in Borland C.
> Microsoft says " object->data "  I tried " object.data " but does not
> recognize global structure gives: " structure must be on left side of
> . or .*  " compiling error. [...]

The . operator accesses members of a class via a reference to object; 
the -> operator does the same for a pointer to object. For example, 
having

	class X
	{
	public:
		// ...
		int a;
	};

and

	X x;
	X *xptr = &x;

we can access data member X::a through both

	x.a      // access via a reference to X
	xptr->a  // access via a pointer to X

with the same results. What you're experiencing is probably due to a 
mispelling of variable names or, more likely, to the fact that you're 
using the '.' operator with a pointer. Check your declarations.

Hope this helps, but, how about trying comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++?

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