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

The simple logic is count the spaces only if there aren't any white spaces before. Try this:

public class WordCount 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        int word=1;
        Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter a string: ");
        String str=s.nextLine();
        for(int i=1;i