Strcmp doesn't work on same strings with same length

Question

So, I have this code, where password is a string obtained by breaking into tokens a bigger string, and pass obtained from a text file. I even used strcspn so i can remove '\n' from pass.

    if (ok == 1){

        char buffer[20];
        snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%s.txt", username);

        chdir("./passwords") ;

        FILE *userf;
        userf = fopen(buffer,"r");
        if(userf == NULL){
            perror("Eroare la fopen");
            exit(1);
        } else
            printf("Am deschis fisierul cu parola\n");

        char pass[20];

        if(fgets(pass, sizeof(pass), userf) == NULL){

            perror("Eroare la fgets");
            exit(1);
        } 
        pass [ strcspn(pass, "\r\n") ] = '\0'; 
        printf("%s\n%s\n",password, pass);
        printf("%i %i\n",strlen(password), strlen(pass));

        if(strcmp(password, pass) == 0){
            printf("Connected");
        }
    }

As you can see from the terminal it prints out the same string with the same length but strcmp for some reason doesn't return 0.I'm really confused.

Answer 1

If you add a \n to the last printf you'll see it works fine.

Your program is just exiting before it's flushed the stdout buffer.