Array prblem...Need Help..

Question

Assuming the user can only type letters. Thispart of my program is supposed to accept user input and set that user input to the elements in the array.The problem isi can't figure out how to make the array accept user input as it's elements.(I need to use arrays)
[code
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.awt.*;     
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class d6
public static void main (String[] args)
String answer[] = new int [JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "User Input")];
for (int i=0;i<answer.length;i++)
System.out.println("The User Input Was:"+answer);

Answer 1

this counts how many words were typed in by the user. (assuming that input consists entirely of letters, whitespace,periods, and commas.)
Problem 1
Example 1
-User Input = I say hi.
-Output= The WordCount is 3 Words.
Example 2
----User Input= I say hi
Output =The WordCount is 2 words
i may need more if statements because the problem is that it only increments WordCount if the user types a space a comma or a period so if the user does none of these things at the end of the input string the wordcount is wrong in the end product.
I'll be in this forum to further clarify my problem if necessary.
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.awt.*;
public class d6
public static void main (String[] args)
char[] answer = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "User Input").toCharArray();
System.out.println("The User Input Was: ");
for (int i=0;i<answer.length;i++)
System.out.println(answer);
int WordCount=0;
for (int j=0;j<answer.length;j++)
     if (answer[j]==(' '))
          System.out.print("");
          WordCount+=1;
else if
(answer[j]==(','))
          System.out.print("");
          WordCount+=1;
else if
(answer[j]==('.'))
          System.out.print("");
          WordCount+=1;
System.out.println("The WordCount is: "+WordCount);