Find And Print The Longest Word In A String | C Programming Example

[drig]

Great video! I have few suggestions on how we go through each word in the string and determine the longest one of them. This uses strtok function which skips to the nonwords character and counts

char str[] = "A sentence with several words"
char nonwords[] = " ., ?!\n\t";

int max=0;
char max_word[50];

char *ptr = strtok(str, nonwords);
while (ptr != NULL)
{
count = strlen(ptr);
if (count > max)
{
max = count;
strcpy(max_word, ptr);
max_word[strlen(max_word)] = '\0';
}
ptr = strtok(NULL, nonwords);
}

printf("\nLongest word: %s", max_word);

[naruto]

If I don't use function then I don't have to create that *word right?

[saadatraja]

GREAT VIDEO...although i didn't get the line
temp_buffer[count]='\0'
won't that make the value of temp buffer \0?
sorry if this is a stupid question, i'm new to programming

[muhammadaushafalfarras]

Hello, is there a way to print multiple long words with the same length?

[Скорпиончик-го]

Please, can you write code for the smallest word??

Or what changes need to do in this code?