problems with getch()

**Waldo2k2** · 01-21-2003

There's a problem using getch in the following program. I can't quite figure out how to take the input, compile and run it yourself, it was compiled with turbo c 2.01...so some of the includes might be different in other compilers. The two strings will never equal eachother...just take a look at the output of what you type when you run the program and you'll see what I mean. Thanks.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <process.h>
int i=0;
int goAhead=1;
int hackTry=0;
char password[]="bcannadian";
char pword[50];
int main()
{
	system("cls");
	printf("Login V1.0\nCreated By Drew Peterson\n\n");
	while(goAhead==1)
	{
		printf("Enter Password:");
		for (i=0;i<50;i++)
		{
			pword[i]=getch();
			if(pword[i]=='\r')
			{
				pword[i-1]='/0';
				break;
			}
                                                fflush(stdin);
		/*	printf("*");*/
			printf(pword);
		}
		if(strcmp(password,pword)==0)
		{
			goAhead=0;
		}
		else
		{
			printf("Incorrect Password\n\n");
			hackTry=hackTry+1;
			if(hackTry>=5)
			{
				printf("You Have Entered An Incorrect Password Too Many Times,\nPress Any Key To Reboot");
				outportb(0xCF9,4);
				outportb(0xCF9,2);
			}
		}
	}
	printf("You Have Successfully Logged In\nPress Any Key To Continue\n");
	getch();
	execl("c:\\com.com",0);
	/*will only get to this point if it failed*/
	printf("Failure To Load Operating System, Press Any Key To Reboot");
	getch();
	/*code to reboot*/
	outportb(0xCF9,4);
	outportb(0xCF9,2);

	exit(0);
}

**Vber** · 01-21-2003

get char by char with getch() and then add them together.
Why won't you try using fgets, instead doing the whole job?

and why you use global variables? it's not needed in this case..

**Vber** · 01-21-2003

Code:

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

#define MAX 50 //max length of the password

int main(void)
{
	char *pass = "hello"; //lol, our password.
	char *usInput;
	int i;

	for(i=0;i<MAX;++i)
	{
		usInput[i] = getch();
		if(usInput[i] == '\r') {
			usInput[i] = '\0';
			break;
		}

		fflush(stdin); //fflush the input stream
		printf("*");
		
	}
	printf("The pass: %s\n",usInput);

	if(strcmp(usInput,pass) == 0)
		printf("Correct, you can go now.\n");

	
	return 0;
}

You error was at this line

Code:

if(usInput[i] == '\r') {
			usInput[i] = '\0';
			break;
		}

In this case you dont need to do [i-1].
Good luck.

**Waldo2k2** · 01-21-2003

yeah i had some dumb mistakes in there, but it's all been fixed this morning....even added in handling for backspaces. Anywho thanks guys.

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