Thanks guys for your input. I am more than likely going to go out and buy a C programming book. Not sure what good books are out there (ones that have an easy to understand format with lots of examples). Maybe C programming/language for dummies?
What my objective was, was to get my IR receiver to translate the code and define it with its associated value that it shows on the Sony Remote. I looked at the arduino reference site of the string arrays but I am still a bit confused. Can string arrays still store numerical values as numbers (not characters)?
I ended up taking out the single quotations and did everything in simple numbers that I will define later. This seems to work just fine when the Serial.print() shows what I press.
unsigned long Remote[12][2] = {{0, 1001000},
{1,1},
{2,1000000},
{3,100000},
{4,1100000},
{5,10000},
{6,1010000},
{7,110000},
{8,1110000},
{9,1000},
{20,100},
{30,1101000}};