Thread: Array and FOR

Hello everyone, I have a problem with an exercice, in which I have to use arrays and forward loop. Here is the question.

As part of an English assignment, Jonathan is supposed to use 10 words and then figure out which of them is the longest
word. Help him by writing a program that accomplishes this. Items in red indicates user input.
SAMPLE OUTPUT
Enter 10 words, Jonathan :
Singing
Dancing
Copenhagen
Denmark
Computers
Apple
Pineapple
Music
Director
Cinema
The longest word in the list is: Copenhagen

So here is what i've got so far:

class ArrayAssignement
{
public static void main (String []args)
{
 
String word[] =new String[10]; //what will store the 10 words
String longest="";
 
System.out.println("Enter 10 words: "); //prints out enter 10 words
 
 
for (int position=0; position<word.length; position++) //position is 0, as long as position is smaller then the length of the biggest word, counter+1
{
	word[position]=TextIO.getWord();	//accepts the user input
}
 
 
for(int counter=0; word[counter].length()<word[counter+1].length(); counter++)
{	
	word[counter]=longest;
}	
 
System.out.println("the longest word is "+longest);
 
}
}

It doesn't seem to print out longest, and also im not sure that the logic is correct in there.
Thank you

yep ur logic is correct....
you made a minor mistake...

you should assign a value to variable/field...i.e., variable=value
but in ur code....u wrote word[counter]=longest;
it means your are giving "null" to word[counter]....

correct line must be:: longest=word[counter];


also one more thing....you didnt specify end point to the for loop,so it u'll get an arrayIndexOutOfBounds exception...
so write code like this....

longest=word[0];counter=0;
while(counter <10)
{
if(word[counter].length()<word[counter+1].length()) {longest=word[counter];}
counter++;
}
hope it helps