Getting unexpected output for a particular case

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Java

string

import java.util.Scanner;

public class WordCount {
	 public static void main(String args[])
	    {
	        String text;
	        int countWords=0;
	         
	        Scanner SC=new Scanner(System.in);
	         
	        System.out.print("Enter string: ");
	        text=SC.nextLine();
	         
	        //word count
	        for(int i=0; i<text.length()-1; i++)
	        {
	            if(text.charAt(i)==' ' && text.charAt(i+1)!=' ')
	                countWords++;
	        }
	         
	        System.out.println("Total number of words in string are: "+ (countWords+1));
	        //since last word does not contain and character after that
	                     
	    }
}

What I have tried:

I have got the above code to count the number of words in a string.

2 cases I have tried:

case 1 :

Enter string: hello java
Total number of words in string are: 2

case 2 :

Enter string:    hello   java
Total number of words in string are: 3

Case 1 is giving expected answer. But for case 2 I have inserted spaces at the beginning and in between the words. I got result as 3, but expected is 2 .

According to the login the count should be incremented if the current character is space and next character is not space. Can anyone explain this?