Telnet strings?

I'm trying to make a basic telnet login just to test out my socket programming, which I just started today…

And the problem I'm having is comparing the entered password to a password I'm checking for…

The code (some of it anyway) is:

	len = strlen(msg);
	bytes_sent = send( new_fd, msg, len, 0 );

	len = 20;
	bytes_recv = recv( new_fd, buf, len, 0 );
	
	if ( !strcmp( buf, "Pass123" ) )
	{
		msg = "\n\nCongratulations!";
		bytes_sent = send( new_fd, msg, len, 0 );
	}
	else
	{
		msg = "\n\nWrong :P";
		bytes_sent = send( new_fd, msg, len, 0 );
	}

And the problem is that when I type "Pass123" into telnet it's length is 9 characters, where the string itself is only 7, so it fails…

What are these extra characters and how to get around them ( or do I just add them to my password string? )

Never mind I got it… But since I can't delete the post I'll just add this…

And the solution was that there was a carriage return and then newline at the end of the string.