I dont have any idea what the problem is. But what I know is it stopped at

fgets(temp, 256, stdin);

when I run the program, it runs this line and then just stopped because of a segmentation fault. The silly printfs are just for me checking where it stopped exactly.

And one more thing, it doesnt always has segmentation faults there, sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesnt. Please help Ive been wrecking my head for days about this.

The input function call is this line

addContacts(&firstPtr, &lastPtr);

firstPtr and lastPtr are pointers, aimed to be the pointer to the beginning and end of the linked list

/* This Function assumed that the input given is already correct, there are no exception handling
 * addContact : gets data from the user about a record(i.e. name, address, etc)
 * Input: pointer to pointer (first and last of the dynamic linked list)
 * Output : Add contact(s) to the list
 */
void addContacts(contact **firstPtr, contact **lastPtr)
{
	int i = 0;
	char temp[257];	//input buffer
	char *ptr = NULL;	//var to hold strndup
	int input = 0;
	contact *inputPtr;
	contact *loopPtr;
	contact *prevPtr;
	
	do
	{
		inputPtr = (contact *) malloc(sizeof(contact));
		if(inputPtr == NULL)
		{
			printf("Memory Full!\n");
			return;
		}
			
		printf("Adding New Contact:\n");
		
		printf("First Name:\t");
		fgets(temp, 256, stdin);
		WordCap(temp);
		ptr = strndup(temp, lastAlphaNumPos(temp));
		strcpy(inputPtr->fn, ptr);
		free(ptr);
		
		printf("Last Name:\t");
		fgets(temp, 256, stdin);
		WordCap(temp);
		ptr = strndup(temp, lastAlphaNumPos(temp));
		strcpy(inputPtr->ln, ptr);
		free(ptr);
		
		printf("Address:\t");
		fgets(temp, 256, stdin);
		WordCap(temp);
		ptr = strndup(temp, lastAlphaNumPos(temp));
		strcpy(inputPtr->ad, ptr);
		free(ptr);
		
		printf("Postal Code:\t");
		do
		{
		fgets(temp, 256, stdin);
		ptr = strndup(temp, 6);
		strcpy(inputPtr->pc, ptr);
		free(ptr);
		}while(!postalCheck(inputPtr->pc));
		
		printf("Phone Number: \t");
		do
		{
									printf("z");
		fgets(temp, 256, stdin);				printf("a");
		ptr = strndup(temp, 10);				printf("b");
		strcpy(inputPtr->pn, ptr);				printf("c");
		free(ptr);						printf("d");
		}while(!isValidPhoneNumber(inputPtr->pn));
									printf("-2");
		inputPtr->nextPtr = NULL;
									printf("-1");
		//if the input is the first ever element of the list
		if(*firstPtr == NULL && *lastPtr == NULL) 
		{
			*firstPtr = inputPtr;
			*lastPtr = *firstPtr;
			printf("add another record?");
			input = getYesNo();
			if(input == 1) continue;
			else break;
		}
									printf("0");
		//Start insertion sort
		loopPtr = *firstPtr;
		prevPtr = NULL;
									printf("1");
		while(strcmp(inputPtr->ln, loopPtr->ln) > 0)
		{
			prevPtr = loopPtr;
			loopPtr = loopPtr->nextPtr;
		}							printf("2");
			
		if(prevPtr != NULL)
		{
			prevPtr->nextPtr = inputPtr;
			inputPtr->nextPtr = loopPtr;
		}
		else
		{
			inputPtr->nextPtr = *firstPtr;
			*firstPtr = inputPtr;
		}							printf("3");
		while((*lastPtr)->nextPtr != NULL)
		{
			*lastPtr = (*lastPtr)->nextPtr;
		}
									printf("4");
		printf("add another record?");
		input = getYesNo();
	}while(input == 1);	//if the input is 1, keep looping
	
	printf("\n");
}

where does the segmentation fault occur exactly?? In the first fgets or the later ones????

where does the segmentation fault occur exactly?? In the first fgets or the later ones????

aaaa, I forgot to say, its at the last one, after the printf("z");

I have just found the answer to my problem Ill mark this post as solved thanks.

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