Adapting the pre-structs program to use structs (and them weaving in loops to make the whole thing more elegant):

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/*
 * structs.c
 *
 *  An example of using structs in C, along with arrays.
 *
 * To compile: gcc -o structs1 structs1.c
 *
 */
#include<stdio.h>
//#include<string.h>
 
int main()
{
        int i;
        char entry[80], entries = 4, junk;
 
        struct person {
                char name[80];
                int age;
                float height;
        };
 
        do {
                printf("How many people in your database? ");
                scanf("%d", &entries);
        } while (entries <= 0);
 
        struct person people[entries];
 
        for(i=0; i<entries; i++)
        {
                printf("Person %d of %d:\n", (i+1), entries);
                printf("==============\n");
 
                // prompt for name (string)
                printf("Please enter the person's first name: ");
 
                scanf("%s", people[i].name);
//              fgets(entry, sizeof(entry), stdin);
//              strcpy(people[i].name, entry);
 
                // prompt for age (integer)
                printf("Please enter %s's age: ", people[i].name);
                scanf("%d", &people[i].age);
 
                // prompt for height (float)
                printf("Please enter %s's height: ", people[i].name);
                scanf("%f", &people[i].height);
 
                // Get newline out of the input stream
                junk = fgetc(stdin);
//              fgets(junk, sizeof(junk), stdin);
        }
 
        printf("\n\nThe names of the people are:\n");
        for(i=0; i<entries; i++)
        {
                printf("#%d: %s\t", (i+1), people[i].name);
        }
 
        printf("\n\n");
 
        printf("The full bios of the people are:\n");
        for(i=0; i<entries; i++)
        {
                printf("#%d: %s, age: %d, height: %f\n", (i+1), people[i].name, people[i].age, people[i].height);
        }
 
        return(0);
}