Hi, I'm struggling with the following part of a program that I am writing. I currently have 3 arrays.
Array 1 contains names e.g. (jim, steve, jim2, terry, steve)
Some of these names are repeated numerous times
Array 2 contains numbers e.g. (1, 3, 5, 2, 4)
Array 1 and Array 2 are the same size.

Now what I am trying to do is look through the names and then add up the corresponding number, and then print the output. Thus, in the above example my final output should look like: 

jim         1
steve       7   
jim2        5
terry       2

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I have set-up a third array which reads array 1 and just takes the unique names. Then I thought that a 4th array could be built by going through array3, looking for a match in array1, and adding the corresponding number. The final number being pushed into array4, so that at the end I just need to print array3 and array4.

But nothing I do seems to work, and now I have so many # lines in my program trying different things that I'm lost in the confustion.

Edit by tye

In reply to multiple arrays and lists by Anonymous Monk

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