Fairly simple problem

Hey guys im just trying to make a simple program that will use structures to store your full name and age.

Code:

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/********************************
Exercise 12271
Input and output your name, address and age to an appropriate structure.

©2005 Mark Crick
*********************************/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

typedef struct person
{
        char *firstName,*lastName;
        long age;
};

void getInput(char *question, char *retVal)
{
        int i;
        printf(question);

        fgets(retVal,BUFSIZ,stdin);

        for(i = 0;i < BUFSIZ;i++, retVal++)
        {
                if(*retVal == '\n')
                {
                  retVal++;
                  *retVal = '\0';
                          break;
                }
        }
}
int main()
{
        char *input = malloc(BUFSIZ);

        struct person user;
        int length;


                getInput("Please enter first Name ",input);
                length = strlen(input);
                user.firstName = malloc(length);
                strncpy(user.firstName,input,length);


                getInput("Please enter second Nname ",input);
                length = strlen(input);
                user.lastName = malloc(length);
                strncpy(user.lastName,input,strlen(input));


                getInput("Please enter age ",input);
                user.age = strtol(input,NULL,10);

                free(input);
        printf("Name : %s , %s  age : %i",user.firstName,user.lastName,user.age);
        free(user.firstName);
        free(user.lastName);
        return 0;
}

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Only problem is the output isnt correct, i was thinking that strlen doesnt count the terminating character so i tried length += sizeof(char) but they output was the same

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet278.html

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

struct person
{
  char *firstName,*lastName;
  int age;
};

void getInput(const char *question, char *retVal)
{
  fputs(question, stdout);
  fflush(stdout);
  if ( fgets(retVal, BUFSIZ, stdin) != NULL )
  {
      char *newline = strchr(retVal, '\n');
      if ( newline != NULL )
      {
        *newline = '\0';
      }
  }
}

int main()
{
  char input[BUFSIZ];
  struct person user;
  size_t length;

  getInput("Please enter first Name ", input);
  length = strlen(input);
  user.firstName = malloc(length + 1);
  if ( user.firstName != NULL )
  {
      strcpy(user.firstName, input);
  }

  getInput("Please enter second Name ", input);
  length = strlen(input);
  user.lastName = malloc(length + 1);
  if ( user.lastName != NULL )
  {
      strcpy(user.lastName, input);
  }

  getInput("Please enter age ", input);
  user.age = strtol(input, NULL, 10);

  printf("Name: %s, %s age:%i\n", user.firstName, user.lastName, user.age);
  free(user.firstName);
  free(user.lastName);
  return 0;
}

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