NEED TO FIX: updated some code, but it still retrieves wrong message length

message_helpers.c

@@ -50,14 +50,24 @@ char* fetch_message_string(char* message) {
 		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;
 }