how to count words in phrase in java code example

Example 1: count the number of words in a string java

public static void main(String[] args)
    { 
        //return the number of words in a string 
        
       String example = "This is a good exercise"; 
       
       int length = example.split(" ").length;
       
       System.out.println("The string is " + length + " words long.");
        
        
    }

Example 2: check how many of a word is in a string

function countOccurences(str,word)  
{ 
    // split the string by spaces in a 
    String a[] = str.split(","); 
  
    // search for pattern in a 
    int count = 0; 
    for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++)  
    { 
    // if match found increase count 
    if (word.equals(a[i])) 
        count++; 
    } 
  
    return count; 
}