Accesing RosAria Point cloud sensor data

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HI and thank you in advance for your help,

I have recently installed RosAria on my computer to communicate to a pioneer robot over usb to serial. I have tested RosAria using rostopic echo RosAria/sonar to ensure connection and check the sonar data which is returned in a pointcloud. I have been trying to subscribe to RosAria/sonar from a c file I have created. I believe that I have succeeded in connecting because the sonars are clicking but I do not get any viable data into my program observed by ROS_INFO_STREAM. I believe that this is because I have not been able to gain access to the specific array holding the distance readings. I was not able to use PointCoud_To_LaseScan because of errors which I believe are due to it requiring pointcloud2 along with camera data which I do not have because I am simply trying to subscribe to the sonar data. I believe the error in my code is caused by the subscription to the data

Sonar_msg.points=msg->points;

because pointcloud has a header file shown below it would seem the above line should be

Sonar_msg.points.x=msg->points.x; or Sonar_msg.points.x=msg->points;

but these cause an error shown below, so what are the members of PointCloud, and how do you access them?

: error: ‘sensor_msgs::PointCloud_<std::allocator<void> >::_points_type’ has no member named ‘x’

rosmsg show sensor_msgs/PointCloud std_msgs/Header header uint32 seq time stamp string frame_id geometry_msgs/Point32[] points float32 x float32 y float32 z sensor_msgs/ChannelFloat32[] channels string name float32[] values, pointclouds

some of the data I have received which I believe should be of type double with no special characters in them.

Please help me find where I'am going wrong subscribing

Thanks