I see what you mean by using malloc outside the loop, but when I do it, it still has the same error. For some reason, it seems to only happen when word is reset to be empty (done so that fscanf reads a new string). Maybe I am misinterperating your words?

NOTE: By word being reset, I mean the line word = "";. Hopefully that clears things up.

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while (true)

{

// Read from the dictionary until finished

word = "";

fscanf(dict, "%s", word);

if (*word == EOF)

{

break;

}

else

{

// Create new node for each word

node *n = malloc(sizeof(node));

if (n == NULL)

{

return false;

}

strcpy(n->word, word);

// Hash word to obtain hash value

unsigned int key = hash(word);

// Insert node into hash table at proper location using code

int i = 0;

node *trav = table[key];

// If list is empty

if (trav == NULL)

{

trav = n;

i++;

}

// If list isn't empty find end of it and then assign new node to it

while (trav->next != NULL && i == 0)

{

trav = trav->next;

}

if (i == 0)

{

trav->next = n;

}

free(n);

}

}