Array of Structures Problem

[tysonc]

for (loop = 0; loop < (seqread - 1); loop++) {
	if (name == Datalist[loop].Name) {
		difsearch1 = loop;
	}
}
Out << difsearch1 << endl;

I'm having some problems getting this code to work right. Actually I'm not sure it will ever work right I just posted it as an example to show you what I need to do. I read in the 'name' string from an input file and I have Datalist[n] full of 3 types from a separate input file. The problem is that I am 100% positive that the exact same string variable 'name' is stored at some 'n' in Datalist. All I need to do is to get that int ' n' where 'name' is stored in Datalist. This is the only way I could think of how to do it and it doesn't work because for some reason that 'if' statement is never true. If anyone has any suggestions on an alternative way I could go about doing this I would really appreciate the help. Thanks.

[Chris_F]

Post all of the code, not just a tiny little morsel of code, which has no meaning on it's own. We have no context to go on.

[tysonc]

	while (In) {

		getline(In, name, '\t');
		getline(In, species, '\t');
		getline(In, sequence);

		seqread++;
	}

	In.clear();
	In.close();
	In.open("sequences.txt");

	const int MAXLINES = 25;
	Protein Datalist[MAXLINES];

	for (numLoops = 0; numLoops < (seqread - 1); numLoops++) {
		getline(In, name, '\t');
		getline(In, species, '\t');
		getline(In, sequence);

		sequence = RLEdecode(sequence);

		data.Name = name;
		data.Species = species;
		data.Sequence = sequence;	

		Datalist[numLoops] = data;
	}

	while (In2) {
		getline(In2, command);
		
		commandsread++;
	}

	In2.clear();
	In2.close();
	In2.open("commands.txt");


	for (numLoops = 0; numLoops < (commandsread - 1); numLoops++) {
		In2 >> command;
		
		if (command == "search")
		{
			Out << "00" << (numLoops + 1) << "   search    ";
			getline(In2, sequence);
			RLE = RLEdecode(sequence);
			num = search(RLE, Datalist, seqread);
			Out << RLE << "  " << endl << "organism                      protein" << endl;
			if (num != (seqread - 1))
				Out << Datalist[num].Species << "      " << Datalist[num].Name << endl;
			else Out << "NOT FOUND" << endl;
			
		}

		if (command == "diff")
		{
			Out << "00" << (numLoops + 1) << "   diff   ";
			getline(In2, name, '\t');
			getline(In2, name2);
		    Out << name << "   " << name2 << endl << "amino acids difference" << endl;
			dif = difference(Datalist);
			Out << dif << endl;
		}
}