Hi. I'm in a very basic C Programming class. Its defanatly for beginners so this probably will be an easy question. I have my program set as follows....The user enters 10 names into a character array using a for loop. The user picks these names from a list where there are 20 choices. (by the way i have the array declared as "char names[10][20];") Now here is the problem. I cant think of an EFFICENT way to get the results i want. I want it so that the program recognizes what name was typed in and, depending on the name that the user entered, have another integer variable changed. That might be confusing so heres an example. (Ex: name[0] = "john" so therefore "money = money+10") How can i do this? There are 20 different options, so i dont want to have like 200 "strcmp" functions. Help is SOOO greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Use a switch statement

switch(displayarray(names[][20],SIZE))
case 'john':
money+=10;
break;

etcetera

As you see, I send the array to a function for display and get my input returned to the switch. :) HTH