map loading

Hi. Until now, I haven''t really been using any other maps except the one "test map" in my tile-based game, and I''ve hit a problem. By the way, I am not loading the maps from an external file, they are all declared in the source. I have the 2d map array variable called map[40][40] and I define it in a initialization function. Dandy. In my game, there''s a "pick-a-level-screen" similar to that of DxBall 2, and once a level is picked from the screen, there''s a call to the map loading function which goes something like this. //... if (level == 1) char map[40][40] = ... //declare the map. else if (level == 2) char map[40][40] = ... //declare the map for the 2nd level. //... From there, the main game loop should be entered and the map that was loaded into map[40][40] should be used for the gameply. PROBLEM: I don''t know what the problem is (of course!), but no tiles are being drawn, as if the map was never declared. And, yes, I''m sure that in the level picking screen, the int variable level is assigned to the map that was picked. And, yes, I use the same method for defining a map in an initialization function, for example, as I did in the map loading function. And, yes, I know that this routine (even if it did work) would not be good at all, but I just want to get this done. I feel really stupid for asking this question, as the answer is probably a stupid thing that I did for the assigning of the new maps. Thank you very much, Martin