Thread: i am noob. why wont this work?

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
using namespace std;
void disp(char *str[5]) {
     int choice=0;
     for(;;) {
         cout<<"Choose statement to read. (1-5) Other to exit."<<endl;
         cin>>choice;
         if((choice<1)||(choice>5)) break;
         cout<<"Statement "<<choice<<" is \""<<str[choice-1]<<"\"."<<endl;
         }
     return;
     }
int main() {
    char *str[5]={"","","","",""}, *input;
    cout<<"Please enter 5 strings to be stored."<<endl;
    for(int i=0;i<5;i++) {
            gets(str[i]); //I think the problem is here but i dunno what it is
            if(i<4) cout<<"Please enter next string."<<endl;
            }
    disp(str);
    cin.ignore();
    cin.ignore();
    return 0;
}

Thanks alot