Thread: bsearch in array of pointers to struct

Hello to all, I'm new to the forum and I have a question,
what I'm trying to do with this code is an address book and I have an array of pointers which are returned by malloc whenever I need to add an extra entry in the address book. What I need to do is search for a specific entry using bsearch. I've got an inqSort() function that sorts the table and runs normally, but my program crashes when I try to use bsearch. I can't understand what I'm doing wrong, so I was wondering if somebody could explain it to me

Code:

typedef struct {
    char name[20];
    char phone[14];
} abEntry;

abEntry * ab[100];

int abFreeEntry=0;

int abComp(const void *a, const void *b){
    const abEntry * ab1 = *(abEntry **) a;
    const abEntry * ab2 = *(abEntry **) b;
    return strcasecmp(ab1->name,ab2->name);
}

void inqSort(){
    qsort(ab,abFreeEntry,sizeof(abEntry *),abComp);
}

abEntry* findAbEntry(abEntry abe){
    return bsearch(&abe,*ab,abFreeEntry,sizeof(abEntry *),abComp);
}

void findEntryUI(){
    abEntry query, *res;
    
    printf("Input name to be searched: ");
    scanf("%s",&query.name);

    res=findAbEntry(query);
    if (res!=NULL){
        printf("The phone number is: %s\n",res->phone);
    } else {
        printf("\n***Entry not found***\n");
    }
}

Every time an entry is inserted, I inqsort() the array so it's always sorted, and it works as expected. But when I try to call findEntryUI(); from the main() function, the program crashes after entering the name I want to search. Any help is welcome! Thank you in advance!

That was what I first tried, but when run the program crashes:

Process exited after 5.43 seconds with return value 3221225477