crazy characters as output hXe?l)lòo?

[DougP]

I am taking words and parsing them to put each in an array
but some how it tkes the word Hello and makes it hXe?l
What am I doing wrong, below is my code and the screen output. I think it has something to do with I don't know how to access values from and array or pointer?

int words_initialize( char* str, char* words[], int maxwords ){
int c;							/* counter for for loop */
    char n,m;  						/* holder for each letter */
	char thewords[strlen(str)] ; 	/* array to hold first letter of each word */
	char thewholeword[strlen(str)]; /* array to hold  words*/
	char *wPtr= &thewords[strlen(str)];
	int counter = 1;  				/* counter to hold array index i.e. start of each word*/
	int z; /* for printing array values as a double check */	
    /*printf("strlen %d\n",strlen(str)); */
    
    /* get first letter to see if validacharacter and put in array*/
    	thewords[0]=str[0];
    	/* loop through each letter and examin it */
		for (c = 0 ; c <= strlen(str) ; c++ ){
    	
		n=str[c];
   		printf("%c",n);
    	if (!isalnum(n)){
	    	
			/*printf("num islam %d %c\n",c,n);*/
	    	/* get start of each word and put into thewords array */
	    	wPtr = &str[c+1]; /* set array of pointers*/
	    	thewords[counter]=str[c+1];  /* since isalnum finds a non alpha/num 
	    								    need to move forward one character which
											is the start of the next word*/
	    	printf("theword= %d %c\n",n, thewords[counter]);
	    	/* change the character immediately following the 
			   last character of each word so that it becomes a '\0'.  */
		   /* thewholeword[counter] = '\0';*/
		   counter++;  /* increment arraycounter for words and first letter*/
		   
		   printf("----------\n");
    	}
    	else{
	    	/* put the words in separate elements of thewholeword
			re-build the whole word one letter at a time */
			
			thewholeword[counter] =thewholeword[counter]+n;
			printf("%c",thewholeword[counter]);
	    }
	
    }
    /* check out what we got */
		for (z = 0 ; z <= counter ; z++ ){
    	printf("%d %c %c\n",z,thewholeword[z],thewords[z]);
    	printf("wPtr %c\n",wPtr[z]);
    	
    }
    	
    	
	words[0] = &str[0];
   return 1; 
}

-------------------screen output----------------

Test #0 hXe?l)lòo? num islam 5
theword= 32 t
----------
tqh?iBs? num islam 10
theword= 32 i
----------
i?s[ num islam 13
theword= 32 a
----------
aa num islam 15
theword= 32 t
----------
tde?s<t? num islam 20
theword= 0
----------
0 h
wPtr
1 ? t
wPtr
2 ? i
wPtr
3 [ a
wPtr ?
4 a t
wPtr ?
5 ?
wPtr ?
6 ² 4
wPtr
----------- end of screen putput ---------

TIA

DougP
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[xwb]

Check your project settings. Under character set, does it say Unicode or Multi-byte character set? It should be MBCS