Programming Forums - problem with lstrcmp (masm32)

Hi all,

i'm trying to get the following program to work, i need this option for a program i am writing, but it only works when i use the following line to read into the buffer:

invoke StdIn,addr buffer,4

as soon as i change the '4' into a longer value it won't work anymore...

is there a workaround for this?

program:

.386 

.model flat,stdcall

option casemap:none



include \masm32\include\windows.inc

include \masm32\include\kernel32.inc

include \masm32\include\user32.inc

include \masm32\include\masm32.inc



includelib \masm32\lib\kernel32.lib

includelib \masm32\lib\user32.lib

includelib \masm32\lib\masm32.lib



.data



string1 db "Enter: ",0

string2 db 13,10,"equal",0

string3 db 13,10,"not equal",0

teststring db "exit",0

test2 db "exit",0

buffer db 50 dup (?)

vier db "4",0

.code



start:



invoke StdOut,addr string1

invoke StdIn,addr buffer,6

invoke lstrcmpA,addr test2,addr buffer

.if eax==0

invoke StdOut,addr string2

invoke ExitProcess,0

.endif

invoke StdOut,addr string3

invoke ExitProcess,0



end start

i've tried adding the ending [color=blue 13 and 10 (CR and LF)[/color] to the buffer and then it works. but this will not work for my program since i need to compare the userinput with the strings generated by the Process32Next API...

piece of my real program code:

invoke Process32Next,[Snap],offset proc32



;if we have finished the last process listing

;------------------------------------------------------

.if eax!=TRUE

jmp again

.endif

;------------------------------------------------------



invoke lstrcmpA, addr ProcToKill,addr proc32.szExeFile

.if eax == 0

jmp contin

.endif

thanks in advance,