Thanks AD, for some reason a bool solution didn't come to my mind. Program runs good!

Ok, , this is what I came up with so far but I'm getting a syntax error (=) in the
first while loop when I try and compile this. I thought !== and == were to compare statements. Any suggestions?
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I'm trying to get the program to loop back to the friends array and re-compare the two user inputs again and keep doing it until the 2nd input is the same as the first. We haven't covered this yet...

Well C++ cant really clear the screen. You would have to create a fillscreen program to essentially fill the screen with blank space to get rid of whatever is on your console screen. Here is a...

That may create some warnings with certain compilers if I'm not mistaken but I've only used what I received for class (ie. MS Visual Studio)

I'm not sure if this will work for you, I'm really new to c++ but if you put cin.get(); before the user input 0 to exit statement(may have to put several of the cin.get(); ) the program should stay...