I need to compare strings in an array and store/return the longest word

Question

I cannot figure out what to do. I keep getting an error because the array exceeds the bounds but I am not sure why. This is the latest instance of the code there have been many attempts.

private static String compareWords(String[] words) {
    String longestWord = words[0];
    for (int i = 0; i <= words.length; i ++){
        while (longestWord.length()< words[i].length()){
            longestWord=words[i];                
        }
    }                
    return longestWord;
}

Its being written javamain class thats one of my methods. – Jack Schirtz Sep 05 '16 at 18:45 — Jack Schirtz, Sep 05 '16 at 18:45

score -2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '16 at 18:45

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Your post isn't javascript, but here's basically what you want to do. It should be easy to change it over from javascript.

function compareWords(words){
  var longestWord = '';
  for(var i = 0; i < words.length; i++){
    if(words[i].length > longestWord.length){
      longestWord = words[i];
    }
  }
  return longestWord;
}
var words = ['gunslinger', 'gundam', 'dragon', 'shirt', 'unicorn', 'internationalization'];
compareWords(words);

answered Sep 05 '16 at 18:45

Jeremy Jackson

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This worked thank you! – Jack Schirtz Sep 05 '16 at 18:50
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@JackSchirtz Make up your mind. Is it Java or JavaScript? – Andrew Li Sep 05 '16 at 18:51
It was/is Java, I should have said that after I modified it, the code worked. I was wrong with my >= sign. – Jack Schirtz Sep 07 '16 at 17:35

I need to compare strings in an array and store/return the longest word

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