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<str.length();i++)
            {
                if(str.charAt(i)==' ' && str.charAt(i-1)!=' ')
                word++;
            }
       System.out.println("Total Number of words= "+word);
    }
}

Answer 2

Try This Simple Code with split() and argument as spaces

int length=str.split(" ").length;

It will return number of words in your sentence.

Answer 3

package test;
public class CommonWords {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String words = "1 2 3 44 55                            966 5                                   88              ";
        int count = 0;
        String[] data = words.split(" ");
        for (String string : data) {
            if (!string.equals("")) {
                count++;
            }
        }
        System.out.println(count);
    }
}

Answer 4

You need to read entire line. Instead of in.next(); use in.nextLine().

Answer 5

This program works fine, 

step1:input the string

step2:split the string into single word store in a arrays

step3 :return the length of the arrays

public class P5_7 
{
public static int countWords(String str)
{
   String words[]=str.split(" ");
   int count=words.length;
    return count;
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.print("Enter a sentence: ");
    String sentence =in.nextLine();
    System.out.print("Your sentence has " + countWords(sentence) + " words.");
}

}