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Longest Word

This Java program finds and prints the longest word in a given sentence. It uses a Scanner to read input, iterates through the characters of the sentence to extract words, and compares their lengths to determine the longest one. The program also handles ties by comparing the words lexicographically.

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Longest Word

This Java program finds and prints the longest word in a given sentence. It uses a Scanner to read input, iterates through the characters of the sentence to extract words, and compares their lengths to determine the longest one. The program also handles ties by comparing the words lexicographically.

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Program to print the longest word in the sentence

import java.util.*; //Importing packages

import java.io.*;

import java.lang.*;

public class longest_word //declaring class

{ //opening braces of class

public static void main(String args[]) //declaring main method

{ //opening braces of main method

String s,w="",l=""; //temporary variables

char c;

Scanner pa = new Scanner(System.in); //declaring Scanner class

System.out.println("Enter a sentence");

s=pa.nextLine()+" ";; //Store the Sentence

int m=0; //to store the maximum length

for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++)

c = s.charAt(i); //to Store character at i

if(c!=' ') //To extract the word

w=w+c; //To store the word

else

if(w.length() > m) //To check word length with maximum length

m = w.length(); //to store the word length in maximum

l = w; //to store the longest word

else if(w.length()==m) //to check if the world length is equal to maximum length

if(w.compareTo(l) > 0) //compare word with longest word


{

l = w; //to store the longest word

w=""; //to empty the word

System.out.println("Longest word is "+l); //Print the longest word in the sentence

} //closing braces of main method

} //closing braces of class

VARIABLE DATA TYPE FUNCTION


s String To store the Sentence
c Character To store the character at an index
i Integer To Extract a word from the sentence
w String To Store the word
l String To Store the Longest word

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