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

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


    int wordCount = 1,count=1;
 BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:/file.txt"));
            String str2 = "", str1 = "";

            while ((str1 = br.readLine()) != null) {

                    str2 += str1;

            }


    for (int i = 0; i < str2.length(); i++) 
    {
        if (str2.charAt(i) == ' ' && str2.charAt(i+1)!=' ') 
        {
            wordCount++;
        } 


        }

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

}

Answer 2

You can use this code.It may help you:

public static void main (String[] args)
{

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

   String str1 = "Today is Holdiay Day";
   int count=0;
   String[] wCount=str1.split(" ");

   for(int i=0;i<wCount.length;i++){
        if(!wCount[i].isEmpty())
        {
            count++;
        }
   }
   System.out.println(count);
}

Answer 3

Not sure if there is a drawback, but this worked for me...

    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    String userInput = input.nextLine();
    String trimmed = userInput.trim();
    int count = 1;

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

Answer 4

    String data = "This world is mine";
    System.out.print(data.split("\\s+").length);