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[kashiqirphan]

In in the learning phase of C and I have the following problem
I have an two dimentional array of charater that is used to store a list of employee names and I wish to search the list for a particular name... Can this be done by using the following set of codes ???

printf("Enter Employee Name to Search Details:");
scanf("%s",&SEmpNam);
for(i=0;i<no;i++)
{
 for(j=0;j<20;j++)
 {
  // EmpNum is the varible that I have used to store the list of employees
  if(SEmpNam[j]==EmpNum[i][j])
  {
   printf("Result Found \n");
  }
 }
}

[Alexander]

You appear to be comparing character by character (SEmpNam[j]) - you should use strcmp to compare strings (i.e. strcmp(SEmpNam, EmpNum[i]) == 0 for equality.)

[kashiqirphan]

Alexander said:

You appear to be comparing character by character (SEmpNam[j]) - you should use strcmp to compare strings (i.e. strcmp(SEmpNam, EmpNum[i]) == 0 for equality.)

I tried using your idea, I don`t get any compilation error but when i try to execute the program terminates

[Flying Dutchman]

scanf("%s",&SEmpNam);

is SEmpNam is a char array, then & shouldn't be there in scanf because array are passed by reference.