splitting

[Joe Panully]

If i have a string, and I want to split it on the white space and count the number of words in it how would i do this?

String sentance="Hello this is a sentance";
String[] output=sentance.split("\\s");

Than I don't really know what to do.

[Barry Higgins]

Try the following

String sentance="Hello this is a sentance";
StringTokenizer st=new StringTokenizer(sentance);
int noOfTokens=st.countTokens();

Hope this helps,
Barry

[marc weber]

If you split on the spaces, then each element of the resulting array will be a word. Therefore, the number of words is equal to the number of elements in the array, which you can access with the "length" variable.

int wordCount = output.length;

[Stan James]

That code puts words into an array. The length field (well, it looks like a field) tells you how many words are in the array.

Be sure to test with some extraneous spaces and leading spaces, like

"one   two         three"
"    one two three      "

and see what happens. That may lead you to the JavaDoc on Pattern to see if you can match any number of spaces instead of just one. let us know how it goes!