A simple C parser problem

So I'm trying out some parsing right now, it's just some simple if statement checking, and I can't get it to read in the last character from a file properly. I've been screwing around in the code for several hours and have only learned that the problem is in the getnext_arg function.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Code:

#include "stdio.h"
#include "string.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

char gotten_word[35];
int getnext_arg(FILE * pfile){
	int gotten_char='a';
	int i = 0;
	if(pfile != NULL){
		while (gotten_char != EOF && gotten_char != '\n' && gotten_char != ' '){
			gotten_char = getc(pfile);
			printf("GC: %c\n", gotten_char);
			if(gotten_char == EOF){
				return 2;
			}else if(gotten_char != '\n' && gotten_char != ' '){
					gotten_word[i] = gotten_char;
					i++;
				}
			}
	}else{
		printf("Error: Null file\n");
		return 1;
	}
	return 0;
}
int ifequ(int c1, int c2){
	if(c1 == c2)
	{
		return 1;
	}else{
		return 0;
	}
}
int ifnequ(int c1, int c2){
	if(c1 != c2)
	{
		return 1;
	}else{
		return 0;
	}
}
int exeCode(){
	printf("Executing\n");
}
int nexeCode(){
	printf("Not executing\n");
}


int main(void){
	FILE * pfile;
	int comp1 = ' ';
	int comp2 = ' ';
	char compOp[2];
	char path[45];
	int ret;

	printf("Enter path to file: ");
	gets(path);
	
	pfile = fopen(path, "r");
	
	if(pfile != NULL){
		while(getnext_arg(pfile) != 2){
			if( !strcmp(gotten_word, "if") ){
				getnext_arg(pfile);
				comp1 = atoi(gotten_word);
				printf("%d\n", comp1);
				getnext_arg(pfile);
				if(!strcmp(gotten_word, "==") || !strcmp(gotten_word, "!=")){
					strcpy(compOp, gotten_word);
					printf("%s\n", compOp);
				}else{
					printf("Error: Invalid operator.");
					return 1;
				}
				getnext_arg(pfile);
				printf("%s\n", gotten_word);
				comp2 = atoi(gotten_word);
				printf("%i\n", comp2);
					if( !strcmp(compOp, "==")){
						ret = ifequ(comp1, comp2);
					}
					if( !strcmp(compOp, "!=")){
						ret = ifnequ(comp1, comp2);
					}
					if(ret == 1){
						exeCode();
					}else{
						nexeCode();
					}
				}
			}
	} else { 
		printf("Null error\n");
	}

	return 0;
}

Use <> bracket for standard header files... The #include Directive (C/C++)
If you are going to use gotten_word as string, try to null terminate it in your getnext_arg() function.
and gets() is not recommended.