From 9c87de71968e210dfe07ac7ee3c9b77b9963083d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aadhavan Srinivasan <aadhavan@twomorecents.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:45:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] NEED TO FIX: updated some code, but it still retrieves wrong
 message length

---
 message_helpers.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/message_helpers.c b/message_helpers.c
index ad8926c..1c87f3b 100644
--- a/message_helpers.c
+++ b/message_helpers.c
@@ -44,20 +44,30 @@ char* fetch_message_string(char* message) {
 	}
 	int end_index = end - message;
 
-	if (*(message+ end_index-2) = '\r') {
+	if (*(message + end_index-2) = '\r') {
 		num_of_terminators = 2;
 	} else {
 		num_of_terminators = 1;
 	}
 
+	end_index -= num_of_terminators;
+
 	int message_length = end_index - start_index;
-	char* message_string = malloc(message_length + 1);
+	char* message_string = malloc(message_length + 2);
+
+	printf("Message length is %d\n",message_length);
 
-	for (int i=0;i < message_length-num_of_terminators; i++) { /* The reason the upper-bound is message_length-1 is because the last 
+	for (int i=0; i<message_length; 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);
+		printf("%c",*(message_string + i));
 	}
 
-	*(message_string + (message_length - num_of_terminators)) = '\0';
+	strcat(message_string,"\0");
+
+//	printf("%s\n",message_string);
+
+//	*(message_string + (message_length - num_of_terminators)) = '\0';
 	return message_string;
 }