Longest Word in Perl

Published on 14 May 2026 (Updated: 14 May 2026)

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Current Solution

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use v5.42;
use List::Util qw/max/;

sub usage { say "Usage: please provide a string"; exit }

my $input = "@ARGV";
$input =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;

usage unless length $input;
say max map length, split /\s+/, $input;

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