Unexpected behaviour of strtok()

char str[]=“hello how are you?”;
char *ptr=strtok(str," “);
cout<< ptr<<”\n";

ptr=strtok(str," ");                
cout<< ptr<<"\n";
ptr=strtok(NULL," ");           
cout<< ptr<<"\n";

Output:
hello
hello

Doubt: why does how does not get printed in this case?

at this point ptr is null
if u check if(ptr == NULL) cout <<“output me”;
the if statement would execute.

so nothing is being printed here.

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