Java Beginner - Counting number of words in sentence

Question

I am suppose to use methods in order to count number of words in the a sentence. I wrote this code and I am not quite sure why it doesn\'t work. No matter what I write, I on

Answer 1

package test;
public class CommonWords {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String words = "1 2 3 44 55                            966 5                                   88              ";
        int count = 0;
        String[] data = words.split(" ");
        for (String string : data) {
            if (!string.equals("")) {
                count++;
            }
        }
        System.out.println(count);
    }
}