My load function is licking memory

Question

the program complies properly but when i use valgrind shows am leaking memory when I open the file in the FILE *file = fopen(dictionary, "r");

bool load(const char *dictionary)
{
    // TODO
    FILE *file = fopen(dictionary, "r");
    if (file == NULL)
    {
        printf("Could not load file\n");
        return 1;
    }
    
    // Create a array space in the memory to hold 45 characters
    char per_word[LENGTH + 1];
    // Loop through every all word int the dictionary with the specified letters
    while(fscanf(file,"%s", per_word) != EOF)
    {
        // Create a new node
        node *n = malloc(sizeof(node));
        
        
        if (n == NULL)
        {
            return false;
        }
        
        // copy the words into the node
        strcpy(n->word, per_word);
        n->next = NULL;
        
        
        
        // HASH THE WORD
        int hashed = hash(per_word);
        // Check if the word is already at the hashed position in table if not set it to n
        if (table[hashed] == NULL)
        {
            table[hashed] = n;
        }
        else
        {
            n->next = table[hashed];
            table[hashed] = n;
        }
        word_count++;
        
    }
    
    return true;
}

Answer 1

Close the file at the end of the function. This will prevent memory leakage.

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Answer 2

Since you opened a file you need to close it. At the end of your function you need to call fclose(file) to close the file.