[Ethereum] Working with structure arrays in solidity

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I have the following contract code example:

contract C {

    struct A {
        uint256 a;
        uint256 b;
    }

    struct B {
        A ax;
        uint256 c;
    }

    struct C {
        string name;
        B[] bs;
    }

    function init() {
        C memory c;
        B memory b;
        A memory a;

        a.a = 10;
        a.b = 20;

        b.ax = a;
        b.c = 30;

        c.name = "Test test test";
        c.bs[0] = b;
    }
}

Why can't I use push for the last statement 

 c.bs[0] = b;

:

c.bs.push(b);

It throws the following error:

Untitled:30:9: Error: Member "push" is not available in struct B memory[] memory outside of storage.
        c.bs.push(b);
        ^-------^

but bs is an array of structures.

Best Answer

Push is available only on storage arrays, that is member/ state variables and not in memory arrays, that is local variables:

push: Dynamic storage arrays and bytes (not string) have a member function called push that can be used to append an element at the end of the array. The function returns the new length.

http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/types.html

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