Clarifying structures for me.

[91qLy60M]

Ladies and Gentlemen of Cplusplus.com, I have read a few things and am curious about structs. Everything I've read says to do;

struct Name{
      std::string first;
      std::string last;
};

Name name1;
Name name2;

I found a site that does it like so;

typedef struct{
      std::string first;
      std::string last;
}Name;

Name name1;
Name name2;

My question, how can the last one with typedef work like the one before it? I thought the object name had to follow the struct declaration like in the first one.

[mobotus]

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/120892/

[91qLy60M]

Thank you for that mobotus, sir.