Cleaning up multiple if statements C++

Question

I am in the process of doing "Udemy - Learn to Code in C++ by Developing Your First Game", an unreal engine C++ basic course and in this course you develop a small game where the user tries to guess a word.

The code works great. But i was wanting to add to it. I created the code below and it works great. But it is UGGGGLLLY. And since i am still in the early learning phase I was wanting to start developing the right habits.

So the question is how to make all these If statements go away or condense. If i want to add 50 more words I dont want to have to create 50 more if statements.

I tried to change the ISecret to a FString and use that number to get the number from HIDDEN_WORD[1] but it didn't work as planned.

Here is what I am thinking:

ISecret[1-100] = MyHiddenWord[1-100] = HIDDEN_WORD[1-100]

I know this will not work and I know I have to list out the "words" in the bank, but can i create a word bank and just list all the words in the bank?

    int32 ISecret;             //This section generates a 
    srand(time(NULL));        // random number between 1 and 10.
    ISecret = rand() % 10, 1;///

    const FString HIDDEN_WORD01 = "planet";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD02 = "bait";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD03 = "dog";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD04 = "cat";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD05 = "stream";///  These are the Hidden words
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD06 = "taco";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD07 = "ship";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD08 = "balcony";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD09 = "tail";
    const FString HIDDEN_WORD10 = "barf";

         if (ISecret == 1){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD01;}
    else if (ISecret == 2){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD02;}
    else if (ISecret == 3){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD03;}// These make is so
    else if (ISecret == 4){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD04;}//what ever number 
    else if (ISecret == 5){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD05;}//is randomly 
    else if (ISecret == 6){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD06;}//generated that  
    else if (ISecret == 7){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD07;}//the correct
    else if (ISecret == 8){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD08;}//HIDDEN_WORD
    else if (ISecret == 9){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD09;}//is chosen.  
    else if (ISecret == 10){MyHiddenWord = HIDDEN_WORD10;}

Answer 1

You could store them in a std::array:

#include<array>

const std::array<FString, 10> hidden_words =
{
    "planet",
    "bait",
    "dog",
    "cat",
    "stream",
    "taco",
    "ship",
    "balcony",
    "tail",
    "barf"
};

int main()
{
    int ISecret = 0;
    std::cout<<hidden_words[ISecret]<<std::endl;
}

Or a std::vector<Fstring>

In general if you plan to distinguish between each element using an integer it can be beneficial to store the elements in an array.