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Record (computer science)

In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, user-defined type (UDT), or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection of fields, possibly of different data types, typically fixed in number and sequence.

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Record (computer science)

Nodes102
Edges101
Triples18
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019608
Components1

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record records fields languages type data types programming may language field also stored storage key file allow values one since

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System F-subinstance ofbut proper record types are studied in languages0.80text
in a database or spreadsheet a record is often called a rowinstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
each field is called a column.In object-oriented programminginstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
an object is a record that contains stateinstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
method fields.A record is similar to a mathematical tupleinstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
although a tuple may or may not be considered a recordinstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
and vice versainstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
depending on conventionsinstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
the programming languageinstance ofTerminologyIn the context of storage0.80text
local variablesinstance ofthat contains the parameters as well as other fields0.80text
the return addressinstance ofthat contains the parameters as well as other fields0.80text
SQLinstance ofQuery languages0.80text

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