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Longest Word Program - Java Programs

Write a program to input a sentence and print the number of characters found in the longest word of the given sentence.
For example, if s = “India is my country” then the output should be 7.

Java


import java.util.Scanner;
class Longest{
    public static void main(String args[]){
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter the sentence: ");
        String s = in.nextLine();
        String l = "";
        String w = "";
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
            char ch = s.charAt(i);
            if(ch == ' ' || i == s.length() - 1){
                if(w.length() > l.length())
                    l = w;
                w = "";
            }
            else if(Character.isLetterOrDigit(ch))
                w += ch;
        }
        int len = l.length();
        System.out.println("Longest word length: " + len);
    }
}

Output

 
 OUTPUT : 
Enter the sentence: India is my country.
Longest word length: 7