Java Help - Counting White spaces

[lil layzie]

I'm trying to count how many white spaces there are in this particular string.
The string is "say some thing"
Which would mean there is 2 white spaces.

int count = 0;
String aString = "say some thing";
		
	for (int n=0; n<aString.length();n++)
	{
		if (aString.charAt(n)==' ');
		{
		count++;
		}
	}

I think there is a problem with my aString.charAt== because it is adding 1 to count for every character, not just a whitespace.

How do i define a white space so i can make an if statement.

 

[halogen]

First delete the semi colon at the end of the if statement. Then try using Character.isWhitespace(aString.charAt) instead.

 

[lil layzie]

I can't believe I missed the semi colon and your suggestion worked!

Thank you so much

 

[seithon]

... isnt their also something like string.length(); too?
Forgive me I'm a bit of a newbie.. and I cannot remember the syntax perfectly but I know we've used something like that in our classes

 

[tim_m]

he's using .length() already