Question

This is what I have so far:

for(i = 0; i <= 9; i++){
    printf("%d", i);
    found = strpbrk(nameholder[i], searchterm);
    if(strpbrk(nameholder[i], searchterm) == searchterm){
        printf("found\n");
        foundwhere = i + 1;
        break;
    }
}// end for

When I run the program, the strpbrk function finds the string, but for some reason it never triggers the if statement. What am I missing?

Answer 1

If I correctly understood (your description is vague) what you are trying to do, then you seem to be using a wrong function.

Quoting cpp docs on strpbrk:

Returns a pointer to the first occurrence in str1 of any of the characters that are part of str2, or a null pointer if there are no matches.

That’s not what you want it to do, right? You should be looking at strcpm function.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strcmp/

Your code should look like:

for(i = 0; i <= 9; i++){ 
    if(strcmp(nameholder[i], searchterm) == 0){
        printf("found\n");
        foundwhere = i + 1;
        break;
    }
}// end for