Using arrow -> and dot . operators together in C

Question

I was under the impression that it was possible to access data from a sub-node of a linked list or similar structure by using the arrow and dot operators together like so:

Answer 1

. is for accessing the members of a struct (or union) e.g.

struct S {
int x;
}

S test;
test.x;

-> is a shorter way to write (*pointer_to_struct).struct_member