Help With Parsing String into Array of Strings

Hello, so I am writing a code for an assignment that requires me to break an inputted string into an array of string arguments. Here is my code, which is within the main, to do so. It only puts the first token into my array, and the while loop never goes through a second time. I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out the error in this fragment of code.

Code:

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            char** argsArray = malloc((sizeof(char*)*(numArgs+1)));
            int counter = 0;
            char* next;
            char *delimiters = " \t\n";
            next = strtok(buffer, delimiters);
            while(next != NULL)
            {
                printf("Does this happen? \n");
                argsArray[counter] = (char*)malloc((sizeof(char)*strlen(next)));
                strcpy(argsArray[counter], next);
                next = strtok(NULL, delimiters);
                printf("Element %d is: %s \n", counter, argsArray[counter]);
                counter++;
            }

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What is in "buffer"?

Also, don't cast the return value of malloc.

sizeof(char) is and will always be 1 on any architecture. It is mandated by the standard.

Sorry should have clarified.... buffer is a string that contains the entire user input, meant to be parsed using the delimiters (space, tab, new line).

Yes I know that, but what does it really contain when you run the program. I.e. what are you testing it with.

The input I'm testing it with is something like "Hello World" where it should make an array of two strings.... "Hello" and "World" .... but when I test it, it puts "Hello" into element 0 of the array, and then it appears that the token is NULL since it will not execute the loop again at the "World" stage.

There is another thing that concerns me about your code. You never seem to check whether counter has exceeded the number of char* available in argsArray. In fact, what is the value of numArgs?

numArgs is never more than 3 when I test it. I have another piece of the program that prints numArgs for me so that I am aware. For example, if I typed "hello world 12" then there are 3 arguments. Spaces are separators for this. My confusion is that I use a very similar method with strtok to count the arguments and even print them one by one (countArgs method shown below).... the problem seems to come with malloc'ing space and putting the strings into my array of char*'s. For whatever reason, after adding the first string to the array, it sees "next" as NULL and thus skips my while loop.

Sorry here is the code I mentioned.

Code:

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int countArgs(char* buffer) {
    char *delimiters = " \t\n";
    int counter = 0;
    char *first = strtok(buffer, delimiters);
    printf("Token %d is %s \n", counter++, first);
    char *next;
    while(next = strtok(NULL, delimiters)) {
        printf("Token %d is %s \n", counter++, next);
    }
    return counter;
}

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