package com.thealgorithms.others;
/**
* @author Marcus
*/
final public class CountWords {
private CountWords() {
}
/**
* @brief counts the number of words in the input string
* @param s the input string
* @return the number of words in the input string
*/
public static int wordCount(String s) {
if (s == null || s.isEmpty()) {
return 0;
}
return s.trim().split("[\\s]+").length;
}
private static String removeSpecialCharacters(String s) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (char c : s.toCharArray()) {
if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(c) || Character.isWhitespace(c)) {
sb.append(c);
}
}
return sb.toString();
}
/**
* counts the number of words in a sentence but ignores all potential
* non-alphanumeric characters that do not represent a word. runs in O(n)
* where n is the length of s
*
* @param s String: sentence with word(s)
* @return int: number of words
*/
public static int secondaryWordCount(String s) {
if (s == null) {
return 0;
}
return wordCount(removeSpecialCharacters(s));
}
}