Question

Is it possible to have a variable number of string arrays?

psuedo-psuedo code example:

cout<<"Number of family members?"<< endl;
cin>> n;

n_1[5]= {whatever}
n_2[5]= {whatever}
n_3[5]= {whatever}
n_4[5]= {whatever}
n_5[5]= {whatever}
n_n[5]= {whatever}

Is that at all possible?

Answer 1

Your question isn’t entirely clear, but it sounds like what you probably want is something on this general order:

std::cout << "Number of family members? ";
std::cin >> n;

std::vector<std::string> family(n);    

for (int i=0; i<n; i++) {
    std::cout << "Name[" << i << "]: ";
    std::cin >> family[i];
}