why does this give me too many initialisers error?

[Pouncer]

char names[] = { "Mary", "Jordan" };

i want to also store a string value for each name too, how can i do this guys?

like.. Mary - female
Jordan female etc

so i want to store male or female for each person in the array

[Harsh Gupta]

because names is a char array in your program and while initialising, you are passing 2-d array items.

if you make it 2-d array, then it will not give error.

example: char *names[] (or you can use char names[][25] - in this you need to specify the second index)

so Mary will be names[0][3], Jordan will be names[1][5].

hope you get it now.

[Harsh Gupta]

and how are you determining about the gender? will the user enter it?

[Pouncer]

well im passing information to the dll from my client mIRC, e.g..

//echo -a $dll(Test32.dll, TestFunction,0) echos

Gupta

heres the code..

extern "C" int WINAPI TestFunction(HWND, HWND, char *data, char *parms, BOOL, BOOL) {

	char *names[] = { "Harsh", "Gupta", "pouncer" };

	_fstrcpy( data , names[1] );

	return 3;
}

but now im going to pass a full parameter to the dll like this

/dll Test32.dll TestFunction Harsh-Male

and i want it to store Harsh in 1 part of the array, and male in another and then somehow be able to get the gender of the person by their name