JavaHow To Count Words

Count Number of Words in a String

You can easily count the number of words in a string with the following example:

String words = "One Two Three Four";int countWords = words.split("\\s").length;System.out.println(countWords);

Explanation: The methodsplit("\\s") breaks the string into an array wherever it finds a space.
In the example, the string"One Two Three Four" is split into 4 words.
Thelength of that array tells us the total number of words.

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