Answer:
There are a few issues with the provided code that result in it returning the wrong number:
1. Line 4 is initializing the string array `ary` with an empty string, which means that it will only have one element (which is the empty string itself). This does not split the input string `s` into separate words as intended.
2. The loop condition in line 5 (`i < ;`) is missing an argument, which means that the loop will not execute.
3. The `if` condition in line 6 is checking if `ary[i]` is an empty string (`""`), which will never be true since `ary` was initialized with an empty string. It should instead check if `s.charAt(i)` is a space character.
4. The return statement in line 7 is using a negative value (`- i`) as the length of the last word, which is incorrect and will always result in a negative number.
To fix these issues, you can modify the code as follows:
class Solution {
public int lengthOfLastWord(String s) {
String[] words = s.split(" ");
if (words.length == 0) {
return 0;
} else {
return words[words.length - 1].length();
}
}
}
Here, we are splitting the input string `s` into an array of words using the `split` method, which splits the string on spaces. If the resulting array has length 0 (meaning there were no words in the original string), we return 0. Otherwise, we return the length of the last word in the array (which is accessed using the index `words.length - 1`).