Defining Your Own Type Names

Let's make our own data type using the typedef keyword.

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The typedef keyword

In C, we can assign an alternate name to a data type, any name we want. A typedef statement allows us to do this.

For example, we can use the typedef keyword to define a type called Counter which is an alternate name for an integer, like this:

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