split a string into array of word

package string;

public class Split {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String input="   value1      value2    value3   "; // need to do trim() first to remove leading spaces
		String[] fields=input.split("\\s+");
		for(int i=0; i<fields.length; i++) {
			System.out.println(i+" #"+fields[i]+"#");
		}

	}

}
/** output
0 ##
1 #value1#
2 #value2#
3 #value3#
**/