problems with getch()

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:

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#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);
}

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

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

Code:

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#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;
}

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You error was at this line

Code:

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

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

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.