I'm trying to write a program using a 2-D array as a lookup table for
referencing part numbers to give the corresponding inventory.  Why isn't my
code printing the correct numbers?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#define x 8
#define y 2

main()
{
int a, b;
int parts[x][y]={{1,10},{2,20},{3,30},{4,40},{5,50},{6,60},{7,70},{8,80}};

clrscr();

printf("Enter part number:");
scanf("%d", &parts);

for (a=0; a<x; a++)
       for (b=0; b<y; b++)
        if (parts==a)
           printf("\nNO.\tQuantity");
           printf("\n%d\t%d", parts[a][b]);

//      else
//         printf("Sorry that part number does not exist");

return 0;

: I'm trying to write a program using a 2-D array as a lookup table for
: referencing part numbers to give the corresponding inventory.  Why isn't my
: code printing the correct numbers?

: #include <stdio.h>
: #include <conio.h>
/* ### non-standard header */
: #define x 8
: #define y 2
/* ### pretty confusing; try ROWS, COLS for want
 * of anything better.  Some like MAXPARTS would
 * be more useful.
 */

: main()
/* ### int main(void) */
: {
: int a, b;
/* ### Use 'int a, b, partnumber;' here */
: int parts[x][y]={{1,10},{2,20},{3,30},{4,40},{5,50},{6,60},{7,70},{8,80}};

: clrscr();

: printf("Enter part number:");
: scanf("%d", &parts);
/* ### parts is an array; you can't do this.  Use
  scanf("%d", &partnumber);
 * and check the return from scanf() as well.
 */

/* ### this gets confusing - use the code added below, which
 * should do what you want.  There's no point in iterating
 * across the numbers and quantities (which I _think_ is
 * what you are doing), you just want to scan the list.
 * And you can't set an array equal to a constant - I'm
 * suprised it compiled.
 */
: for (a=0; a<x; a++)
:        for (b=0; b<y; b++)
:       if (parts==a)
:          printf("\nNO.\tQuantity");
:          printf("\n%d\t%d", parts[a][b]);

: //    else
/* ### non-standard comment */
: //       printf("Sorry that part number does not exist");

  for (a=0; a<x; a++) {
        if (parts[a][0] == partnumber) {
                printf("NO.\tQuantity\n");
                printf("%d\t%d\n", parts[a][0], parts[a][1]);
                break;
        }
  }
  if (a == x)
        printf("Sorry that part number does not exist\n");

: return 0;
: }

Will