Java word count program

Question

I am trying to make a program on word count which I have partially made and it is giving the correct result but the moment I enter space or more than one space in the string, the result of word count show wrong results because I am counting words on the basis of spaces used. I need help if there is a solution in a way that no matter how many spaces are I still get the correct result. I am mentioning the code below.

public class CountWords 
{
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {

            System.out.println("Simple Java Word Count Program");

            String str1 = "Today is Holdiay Day";

            int wordCount = 1;

            for (int i = 0; i < str1.length(); i++) 
            {
                if (str1.charAt(i) == ' ') 
                {
                    wordCount++;
                } 
            }

            System.out.println("Word count is = " + wordCount);
    }
}

Answer 1

To count total words Or to count total words without repeat word count

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    String test = "I am trying to make make make";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\w+");
    Matcher m = p.matcher(test);
    HashSet<String> hs =  new HashSet<>();
    int i=0;
    while (m.find()) {
        i++;
        hs.add(m.group());
    }
    System.out.println("Total words Count==" + i);
    System.out.println("Count without Repetation ==" + hs.size());
}

}

Output :

Total words Count==7

Count without Repeatation ==5

Answer 2

Java does have StringTokenizer API and can be used for this purpose as below.

String test = "This is a test app";
int countOfTokens = new StringTokenizer(test).countTokens();
System.out.println(countOfTokens);

OR

in a single line as below

System.out.println(new StringTokenizer("This is a test app").countTokens());

StringTokenizer supports multiple spaces in the input string, counting only the words trimming unnecessary spaces.

System.out.println(new StringTokenizer("This    is    a test    app").countTokens());

Above line also prints 5

Answer 3

public class wordCOunt
{
public static void main(String ar[])
{
System.out.println("Simple Java Word Count Program");

    String str1 = "Today is Holdiay Day";

    int wordCount = 1;

    for (int i = 0; i < str1.length(); i++) 
    {
        if (str1.charAt(i) == ' '&& str1.charAt(i+1)!=' ') 
        {
            wordCount++;
        } 
    }

    System.out.println("Word count is = " +(str1.length()- wordCount));
}

}

Answer 4

public static int CountWords(String str){

   if(str.length() == 0)
          return 0;

   int count =0;
   for(int i=0;i< str.length();i++){


      if(str(i) == ' ')
          continue;

      if(i > 0 && str.charAt(i-1) == ' '){
        count++;
      } 

      else if(i==0 && str.charAt(i) != ' '){
       count++;
      }


   }
   return count;

}

Answer 5

This could be as simple as using split and count variable.

public class SplitString {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int count=0;        
        String s1="Hi i love to code";

        for(String s:s1.split(" "))
        {
            count++;
        }
        System.out.println(count);
    }
}

Answer 6

To count specified words only like John, John99, John_John and John's only. Change regex according to yourself and count the specified words only.

    public static int wordCount(String content) {
        int count = 0;
        String regex = "([a-zA-Z_’][0-9]*)+[\\s]*";     
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(content);
        while(matcher.find()) {
            count++;
            System.out.println(matcher.group().trim()); //If want to display the matched words
        }
        return count;
    }