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CBSE Class 11 Computer Science Question 99 of 104

List Manipulation — Question 13

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Question 11a

Write programs as per following specifications:

'''Print the length of the longest
string in the list of strings str_list.
Precondition : the list will contain
at least one element.'''

Solution
l = eval(input("Enter list of strings: "))
largeIdx = 0
largeLen = 0

for i in range(len(l)):
    length = len(l[i])
    if length > largeLen:
        largeLen = length
        largeIdx = i

print("Longest String:", l[largeIdx])
Output
Enter list of strings: ["apple", "orange", "pear", "strawberry", "kiwi"] 
Longest String: strawberry
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