Maximum Number of Words Found in Sentences

A sentence is a list of words that are separated by a single space with no leading or trailing spaces.

You are given an array of strings sentences, where each sentences[i] represents a single sentence.

Return the maximum number of words that appear in a single sentence.

Example 1
Inputsentences = ["alice and bob love leetcode","i think so too","this is great thanks very much"]
Output6
The three sentences have 5, 4, and 6 words respectively, so the maximum number of words in a single sentence is 6.
Example 2
Inputsentences = ["please wait","continue to fight","continue to win"]
Output3
The second and third sentences both have 3 words, so the maximum number of words in a single sentence is 3.

Constraints

  • 1 <= sentences.length <= 100
  • 1 <= sentences[i].length <= 100
  • sentences[i] consists only of lowercase English letters and ' ' only.
  • sentences[i] does not have leading or trailing spaces.
  • All the words in sentences[i] are separated by a single space.

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