Java Beginner - Counting number of words in sentence

Question

I am suppose to use methods in order to count number of words in the a sentence. I wrote this code and I am not quite sure why it doesn\'t work. No matter what I write, I on

Answer 1

Actually, if you enter a sentence like:

"Hello World"

your code String sentence = in.next(); will only get the first word in the sentence i.e., Hello. So, you need to use in.nextLine() in place of in.next() to get the whole sentence i.e., Hello World.