for/if/else dilemma

[Arjay]

ok. then i must have asked the wrong question. i'm going to reformulate.

why, when i use "Search: " i get answers from other ifs instead of getting only from one if.

and please, do critique the code.

sry if i'm confusing .. i'm sort of a begginer

tnx

There are only two possibilities:
1) Your if statements end up comparing the same thing.
2) You have redundant entries in the data files.

Given the data, are you sure that these statements evaluate uniquely?

 
if ( strcmp   ( a[i].word, search_word )    == 0 )
if ( strcmp   (a[i].word_pl, search_word ) == 0 )
if ( strnicmp ( a[i].word, search_word,2 ) == 0 )

If you see duplicate entries, why don't you print out the file and line number, so when you see a duplicate, you can see the data that caused it to happen?