im at a bit of a loss here. I never had to work with strings, so forgive me if it is trivial: i want to have an array of strings in C++, for example: string array[10]; array[0] = "I dont"; array[1] = "understand"; program compiles, but i cant cout any values from an array. any help is much appreciated

What you're after here I think is char *array[2] = { "help me", "I've fallen and I can't get up" }; cout [[ array[0] should see help me cout [[ array[1] should see I've fallen and I can't get up If you're after individual chars, then array1[4] = { 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' }; cout [[ array1[0]; shoud see the letter A cout [[ array[3] should see the letter D That *should* work with the "string" variable as well, but I'm using an older compiler where "string" isn't defined as an array of characters. You might have to remove the * symbol before the array name when using string, but I'm not sure. HTH