How to get position of a certain element in strings vector, to use it as an index in ints vector?

Question

I am trying to get the index of an element in a vector of strings, to use it as an index in another vector of int type, is this possible ?

Answer 1

I am a beginner so here is a beginners answer. The if in the for loop gives i which can then be used however needed such as Numbers[i] in another vector. Most is fluff for examples sake, the for/if really says it all.

int main(){
vectornames{"Sara", "Harold", "Frank", "Taylor", "Sasha", "Seymore"};
string req_name;
cout<<"Enter search name: "<<'\n';
cin>>req_name;
    for(int i=0; i<=names.size()-1; ++i) {
        if(names[i]==req_name){
            cout<<"The index number for "<