Question

I am working on some code to parse log data, this part in particular is used to translate the decimal form of a month to a human form ( so 1 would be jan ), and to accomplish this I am trying to use a combination of a for loop and an if statement, and had thought that I could simply use a variable as the number for the statement to retrieve the array cell, but it did not work out as expected, so if someone could offer advice as to how I can do this I would really appreciate it, thanks!
(here is the main chunk of the code)

for ( x = 0; x < 11; x++ ) {
    int altint = 1 + x;
    if ( dmon == altint ) {
            printf( "%s\n", field_month[x] );
            {break;}
    }
}

Answer 1

I’d like to suggest that you not use a for loop and instead look up the element that you want directly:

printf("%s\n", field_month[dmon]);

If your dmon is 1-indexed (1 for January, .., 12 for December), then a slight change:

printf("%s\n", field_month[dmon-1]);