BSD C server not comparing string from buffer

Question

So I am trying to compare the buffer to a string with strcmp. I want the server to respond in a special way when something the client says "man" and otherwise just reply with got it. I cant see what i am doing wrong, but my output is always "got it" and not man even when i input man from the client side.

void dostuff (int sock)
{
   int n;
   char buffer[256];
   bzero(buffer,256);
   n = read(sock,buffer,255);
    //make list match each get text and match to user
    if (n < 0) error("ERROR reading from socket");
    if (!strcmp ( buffer, "man" )) n = write(sock,"you are manly",18);
    else{  printf("Here is the message: %s\n",buffer);
        n = write(sock,"got it",18);};
           //n = write(sock,"you are gay",18);

        if (n < 0) error("ERROR writing to socket");
     /*

   if (n < 0) error("ERROR reading from socket");
   printf("Here is the message: %s\n",buffer);
   n = write(sock,"got it",18);
   if (n < 0) error("ERROR writing to socket");*/
}

Answer 1

The problem is that you are using fgets() in the client to acquire the string to send to the server. The string will have a \n and the end and won't match "man".

To remove the \n at the end of the buffer you can do something like this:

strtok (buffer, "\n"); which will replace the \n with a NULL so your strcmp() will work.