Thread: Word count, coutns "." as a word

hey guys , Im also working on this word coiunt program and it seems to read "." as a word. Im not entirely sure how to stop this from happening without a use of another array. IF anyway has any advice itd be much appricated. thanks guys!

import java.util.*;
 
public class wordCount
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                final int LINES = 6;
                String [] chars = new String[50];
                Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
                String paragraph = " ";
                System.out.println("Please input " + LINES + " lines of text.");
                for (int i = 0; i < LINES; i +=1)
                {
 
                        paragraph = paragraph + " " + in.nextLine();
                }
                System.out.println("The string input was: " + paragraph);
                System.out.println("The number of characters in this string is: " + (paragraph.length()-7));
 
                String word = "";
                int wordCount = 0;
                for (int i = 0; i < paragraph.length()-1;i += 1)
                {
 
                        if (paragraph.charAt(i) != ' ')
                        {
                            word = "";
                        if((paragraph.charAt(i+1) == ' ')||(paragraph.charAt(i) == '.')||(paragraph.charAt(i) == ','))
                        {
                            System.out.print(word);
                            wordCount ++;
                            word = "";
 
                        }
 
                        }
                }
                for (int i=0; i<wordCount;i++)
                {
                    if(chars[i]==(chars[i+1]))
                    {
                        wordCount=wordCount-1;
                        i++;
                    }
                }
                wordCount ++;
                System.out.println("The number of words: " + wordCount);
 
        }      
}