Finding longest word in string

Question

Ok, so I know that questions LIKE this have been asked a lot on here, but I can\'t seem to make solutions work. I am trying to take a string from a file and find the longest

Answer 1

As suggested in the other answer, you need to split your string.

string[] stringOfWords = fileText.split(new Char [] {',' , ' ' });
//all is well, now let's loop over it and see which is the biggest
int biggest = 0;
int biggestIndex = 0;

for(int i=0; i

What we're doing here is splitting the string based on whitespace (' '), or commas- you can add an unlimited number of delimiters there - each word, then, gets its own space in the array.

From there, we're iterating over the array. If we encounter a word that's longer than the current longest word, we update it.