Split to words and put in an array

Question

I thought this time the split code would work perfect for my situation but it does not. I want to split a sentence by taking each word and putting it in a new element of a string array. So if i had the string " ab cd e ", "ab" would be in position 0, "cd" at 1 and so on. This is the method I have
public static String[] splitToWords(String str){
     return str.split(" ");
}but this brings up
[0] = ""
[1] = "ab"
[2] = "cd"
[3] = " "
[4] = "e"
I think i understand why this is happening. Does anybody know a better solution or how to fix this? The split method looks like it is very useful, but i can never seem to find a good place for it. Thank you for any replies

Answer 1

Hello,
try this codes
public class TestStr{
     public static String[] splitToWords(String str){
          return str.split(" ");
     public static void main(String[] args){
          TestStr t = new TestStr();
          String s1 = " ab cd e ";
          String[] receive = t.splitToWords(s1.trim());
          for(int i=0;i<receive.length;i++){
               System.out.println("The "+i+" is "+receive);
And the result is:
The 0 is ab
The 1 is cd
The 2 is e