Displaying 1 result from an estimated 1 matches for "shadstr".
Did you mean:
shader
2009 Apr 10
3
Determine the Length of the Longest Word in a String
...length of that particular word.
My question --
It seems inefficient to determine which element is the longest and then
calculate the length of that longest element. I was hoping to find a way to
simply return the length of the longest word in a more straightforward way.
Short sample code --
> shadstr <- c("My string of words with varying lengths. Longest word is
nine - 1 22 333 999999999 4444")
> shadvector <- unlist(strsplit(shadstr, split=" "))
> shadvlength <- lapply(shadvector,nchar)
> shadmaxind <- which.max(shadvlength) ## Maximum element
> sha...