Cannot find symbol - method count(java.lang.string)

Question

I trying to make a word count program without having to use split(). Okay, before you guys tell me off saying this is a duplicate. I know. the other solution wasn't very specific to me as they were using the add method.

public static void findWord()
{
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("Enter a sentence");
    String sentence = input.nextLine();
    int numOfWords = count(sentence);

here count comes up as an error.

    System.out.println("input: " + sentence);
    System.out.println("number of words: " + numOfWords);
}

Answer 1

As Stefan mentioned, you are missing a count method (as that is what you trying to call when you say count(sentence);)

Slightly different answer here as you asked not to use split()

public static int count(String s) {
        int count = 1; //to include the first word
        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
            if (s.charAt(i) == ' ') {
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;
    }

A better way to do it, if spaces is an issue is:

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(sentence);
System.out.println(st.countTokens());