In order to sequentially access the members of a tag array, the nexttagitem() function is used. struct TagItem *tags = msg->ops_AttrList; struct TagItem *tstate; struct TagItem *tag; ULONG tidata; /* Start at the beginning */ tstate = tags; /* Step through the tag list while there are still items in the * list */ while (tag = NextTagItem (&tstate)) { /* Cache the data for the current element */ tidata = tag->ti_Data; /* Handle each attribute that we understand */ switch (tag->ti_Tag) { /* Put a case statement here for each attribute that your * function understands */ case PGA_Freedom: lod->lod_Flags |= tidata; break; case GTLV_Labels: lod->lod_List = (struct List *) tidata; break; /* We don't understand this attribute */ default: break; } }