Finished working on 'fetch_message_string' function

message_helpers.c

@@ -25,11 +25,18 @@ char* fetch_from_string(char* message, char* indicator) {
 }
 
 char* fetch_message_string(char* message) {
+	int num_of_terminators;
+
 	char* start = strstr(message,"START_OF_MESSAGE");
 	if (start == NULL) {
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	int start_index = start - message;
+	start_index += strlen("START_OF_MESSAGE");
+
+	while (*(message + start_index) == '\n' || *(message + start_index) == '\r') {
+		start_index++;
+	}
 	
 	char* end = strstr(message,"END_OF_MESSAGE");
 	if (end == NULL) {
@@ -37,9 +44,20 @@ char* fetch_message_string(char* message) {
 	}
 	int end_index = end - message;
 
+	if (*(message+ end_index-2) = '\r') {
+		num_of_terminators = 2;
+	} else {
+		num_of_terminators = 1;
+	}
+
 	int message_length = end_index - start_index;
 	char* message_string = malloc(message_length + 1);
 
-	for (int i=0;i < message_length; i++) {
-	*(message_string + i) = *(message_
+	for (int i=0;i < message_length-num_of_terminators; i++) { /* The reason the upper-bound is message_length-1 is because the last 
+						character is a new-line, which the user would not have typed. */
+		*(message_string + i) = *(message + start_index + i);
+	}
+
+	*(message_string + (message_length - num_of_terminators)) = '\0';
+	return message_string;
 }