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I found the fix. I needed to remove the newline character since cin.get(name, length) leaves it(the newline char) in the buffer. The line to add is a simple "cin.get(discard);" where discard is declared as a char variable. I am using a while loop for the menu. This menu was seeing the newline char constantly. Thanks for your help, I'm still trying to learn all the little things of C++ like this one. Randy If only I had more time!

You can always create multi dimensional arrays by arrays of pointers pointing to another array. The difference I think is basically in memory locations, creating arrays by this method dynamically may not have continous memory locations, like that by creating arrays like int a[5][5]; http://www.priyank.in/