Looking for C's equivalent of Pascal's "with"

Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Date	2013-10-02 06:35 -0700
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Subject	Looking for C's equivalent of Pascal's "with"
From	Ruud Baltissen <rbaltissen@gmail.com>

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Hello,


The Pascal equivalent of struct is record. It is possible to nest records inside other records, just like with structs. Assume record Drive0 is nested inside record Device and has the elements InUse and PCfile:

Device = record
  ...
  ...
  Drive0 = record
    InUse  : boolean;
    PCfile : string;
    ...
   end;
  ...
 end;

If I want to access PCfile of Drive0 I could do it like this:
  Device.Drive0.PCfile := "D:\disk.ima";
In C it would look about the same. But in Pascal there another way:

  with Device do
   begin
    ...
    ...
    with Drive0 do
     begin
      InUse := True;
      PCfile := "D:\disk.ima";
     end;
   end;

This comes in handy when handling a lot of elements in one go, for example: when initializing a drive. 

I'm looking for a C equivalent of this "with" construction. All programming examples I saw so far always showed the complete structure. Is there an equivalent or not?

Thank you for your time and info!


Kind regards, Ruud Baltissen
www.Baltissen.org

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