longest word in a sentence

[scorpion1087]

i need to create a sentence an find the longest word in that sentence.
if you could give me a hand i would be thankfull.

this is my code so far

var SENT : string
put "enter a sentence"
get SENT : *
put "the total length is", length (SENT)

for i : 1 .. length (SENT)
if SENT (i) = "" then
put SENT (i - 1)
end if
put "the number of spaces is", SENT (i-1)
end for

[AsianSensation]

ok, well first you have to break down your sentence into words.

run a for loop to break the sentence into words, and have a counter that keeps track of which one is the highest.

code:

var sentence := "This is a sentence." var word, highestword := "" var highestnum := 0 for rep : 1 .. length (sentence)     /*Count only letters*/     if (sentence (rep) >= "A" and sentence (rep) <= "Z") or (sentence (rep) >= "a" and sentence (rep) <= "z") then     /*Add the letters to build a word*/         word += sentence (rep)     else     /*If the thing isn't a letter, then we start to compare*/         if length (word) > highestnum then             highestnum := length (word)             highestword := word         end if         /*Resetting the word*/         word := ""     end if end for put highestword put highestnum

[Andy]

tsk tsk tsk asian, forgot index so soon?

[AsianSensation]

index? what is this index you speak of?

seriously though, I didn't even think about using index for this, but how is using index faster?