how can I find the longest String?

I gave it a go, and what I came up with didn't quite work. Can you guys find what i'm missing here thanks.

public class StringTest

{

public static void main (String [] args)

{

String[] k = new String[10];

int indexMaxLength = 0;

int i;

k[0] = "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf";

k[1] = "asdfasdf";

k[2] = "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf";

k[3] = "asdfasdfasdfasdf";

k[4] = "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf";

k[5] = "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf";

k[6] = "adsdf";

k[7] = "adsdf";

k[8] = "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf";

k[9] = "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf";

for(i = 0; i < k.length; i++)

{

if(k[i].length() > k[indexMaxLength].length())

{

indexMaxLength = i;

}

}

System.out.println(i);

}

}

bonoza at 2007-7-13 19:37:36 >

you're right, it works now.

'I kind of get how it's working.

But if someone doesn't mind explaining what's going on, can you explain what's going on?

I see that as i is incrementing, it is being compared to the length of the string at 0, and if it is greater than that, then that 0 becomes whatever i is. But still confuses me..

bonoza at 2007-7-13 19:37:37 >

You're the one who wrote it. Kind of odd that you'd want others to explain it to you.

Personally I would have done it this way:

String[] stuff = // do something to fill stuff with Strings of varying length

// and for simplicity assume length of the array > 1, and no position in the array is null

int longest = 0;

for (int i = 1; i < stuff.length; i++)

if (stuff[i].length() > stuff[longest].length())

longest = i;

paulcwa at 2007-7-13 19:37:37 >

> I'm sorry, I don't see the difference -

I don't see the difference anymore either. I think I had somehow confused two different threads. Apologizes for any confusion.

> are you suggesting your version for readability? Because I

> think that comes way after understanding the

> fundamentals behind the code...

I'm not convinced there's a difference between readability and understanding the fundamental structure and algorithm in the code.

paulcwa at 2007-7-20 23:37:58 >