strcmp() for lines within a file

Question

So I am trying to compare if a line in file is what I expect but even though when I print to console the first line of a file and what I expect and they look exactly the same THEY are not passing my strcmp test. This is how I test the first line of a file and what I expect:

char currentLine[MAXIMUM_LINE_LENGTH + 1]; // + 1 for terminating char
fgets(currentLine, MAXIMUM_LINE_LENGTH, inputFile);
assertCharArrayEquals(currentLine, "00000010000100011001000000100000\n");

My method assertCharArrayEquals looks like:

void assertCharArrayEquals(char *actualCharArray, char *expectedCharArray) {
    if (strcmp(actualCharArray, expectedCharArray) == 0) {
        printf("PASS: assertCharArrayEquals(%s, %s)\n", actualCharArray, expectedCharArray);
    } else {
        printf(">>>>>>>FAIL: assertCharArrayEquals(%s, %s)\n", actualCharArray, expectedCharArray);
    }
}

and my output to console looks like:

>>>>>>>FAIL: assertCharArrayEquals(00000010000100011001000000100000
, 00000010000100011001000000100000
)

Answer 1

According to your output, actualCharArray ends with a newline character ('\n'), whereas expectedCharArray does not; therefore, they are not considered equal by strcmp.