Search for a string in C

In in the learning phase of C and I have the following problem
I have an two dimentional array of charater that is used to store a list of employee names and I wish to search the list for a particular name... Can this be done by using the following set of codes ???

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printf("Enter Employee Name to Search Details:");
scanf("%s",&SEmpNam);
for(i=0;i<no;i++)
{
 for(j=0;j<20;j++)
 {
  // EmpNum is the varible that I have used to store the list of employees
  if(SEmpNam[j]==EmpNum[i][j])
  {
  printf("Result Found \n");
  }
 }
}

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Originally Posted by kashiqirphan

I have an two dimentional array of charater that is used to store a list of employee names and I wish to search the list for a particular name... Can this be done by using the following set of codes ?

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Test your code to find out for yourself. Only if your tests pass should you come back to us with this question. If your tests fail, you then have data to ask for specific help.

Sorry I did not mention
I am getting an error that says

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error C2109: subscript requires array or pointer type

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You should show the declaration of SEmpNam. I can tell you that string comparison in C is typically done with strcmp.

I tried using this

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if(strcmp(SEmpNam, EmpNum[i]) == 0)

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instead of

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if(SEmpNam[j]==EmpNum[i][j])

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Now i don`t get any compilation error but when I tried to execute it the program terminates
I am using Visual Studio 2005 compiler

Post the smallest and simplest compilable program that demonstrates the problem.

This is the simplest program I made

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#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
main()
{
        char SEmpNam[20],EmpNam[100][20]={{"Jack"},{"Mike"}};
        int i,j;
        printf("Enter Name to Search:");
        scanf("%s",&SEmpNam);
        for(i=0;i<100;i++)
        {
                for(j=0;j<20;j++)
                {
                        if(SEmpNam[j]==EmpNam[i][j])
                        {
                                printf("Result Found \n");
                        }
                }
        }
}

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This code is fine when the EmpNam value is defined in the program but does not work when I have to read it`s value from the user

This:

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scanf("%s",&SEmpNam);

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should be:

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scanf("%19s", SEmpNam);

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Originally Posted by laserlight

This:

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scanf("%s",&SEmpNam);

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should be:

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scanf("%19s", SEmpNam);

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Still the same. . . . Still Not working

Sorry, but there is nothing else that I can see wrong with it. Actually, I can see something that is wrong with it, and I already told you about it earlier (and there's more!), but according to you:

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Originally Posted by kashiqirphan

This code is fine when the EmpNam value is defined in the program

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so once we fix the input problem, everything else should be okay ;)

Thanks for helping me laserlight