Getting string of maximum length from arraylist

Hi,
I have an arraylist which has some following data,
"abc", "gdhj","hdvdvbvd","uyiyiyioy","abcd" etc.

How can get the value from list with max length ie "uyiyiyioy"?

Can anybody give some code?

Thanks in advance!

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For your particular problem, try a for loop and the String.length() method.

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Guido is quite right; please show us what you have achieved so far.

CR

Hi Bappa

iterate through list ,take each object out of it ,find its length and store it ...compare this length with next elements length compare ,if greater swap ..else continue..in the end you will get the max lengths,this is like a selection sort . where lengths comparison will be equal to number of elements but there will be at max n-1 swaps

[ September 10, 2008: Message edited by: Arpit Bon2dfylmts ]
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