Finding the longest string in a 2d array in C

Question

I wrote a function that finds the longest string in a 2d array, it works, partially. My problem is that it takes the first longest string that it finds without checking the othe

Answer 1

You are only comparing the previous and next strings. You need to check the lengths of all the strings.

void length(char str[][MAX])
{
    size_t longest = strlen(str[0]);
    szie_t j = 0;

    for(size_t i = 1; i < LEN; i++)
    {
        size_t len = strlen(str[i]);
        if(longest < len)
        {
           longest = len;
           j = i;
        }
   }
   printf("%s", str[j]);
}

I am assuming you have at least 1 string and handle corner cases (if user inputs less than LEN strings etc -- depends on how you fill the str with strings).