I'm trying to make a method that counts the total number of words in an array without the spaces

String inputString = "Hello! Welcome to Kenzie.  My name is Robert, and I'm here with my friend Waldo.  Have you met waldo?";

public static int countWords (String inputString){
        String[] wordArray = inputString.split(" ");
        int count = 0;
        for(int j = 0; j < inputString.length(); j++){
            if (wordArray[j].equals(" ")) {
// this is supposed to add nothing to count if wordArray[j] is a space
                count = count;
            }else{
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;
    }

When I try running the code I get the error ArrayIndexoutofBoundsException: index 21 out of bounds for the length 21

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here.

>Solution :

You can try in this way given below:

public class WordCount {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String inputString = "Hello! Welcome to Kenzie.  My name is Robert, and I'm here with my friend Waldo.  Have you met waldo?";

    String[] arr = inputString.split(" ");
    int count = 0;
    for (String str : arr) {
      if (str != null && !str.trim().equals("")) {
        count++;
      }
    }
    System.out.println(count);
  }
}

Output:

19