Can't store char array to node value

[jjwooyoung]

I have this bit of code, but it's failing. The error is something like "Access violation writing location"

  struct Node {
        TYPE val;  // TYPE is defined as void*
  };

  char buffer[50];
  fgets(buffer, 50, f);    // f is FILE *f
  node->val = buffer;

[Peter87]

Make sure the buffer has not gone out of scope for as long as you are using node->val.

[jjwooyoung]

edit: okay figure it out. The node was null which is why it wasn't working >.<