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* Find the longest word in the word list file.
@ 2021-08-10 23:14 Hongyi Zhao
  2021-08-11  1:51 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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From: Hongyi Zhao @ 2021-08-10 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

I have an English word list file that stores words in a
one-word-per-line format. Now I want to find the longest word in the
word list file. For example, I can use standard UNIX tools to
accomplish this with the following simple commands:

$ awk '$0 ~ /^[[:alpha:]]+$/ { print $0, length($0) }'
american-english-exhaustive | \
sort -k2n | tail -1
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 58

But in Emacs, what is the elisp implementation for the above task?

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
No. 473, Quannan West Street, Xindu District, Xingtai, Hebei province



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2021-08-11  6:46     ` tomas
2021-08-11  8:58       ` Hongyi Zhao
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2021-08-12  3:13       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  3:17         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12  3:34           ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  3:41             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12  3:52               ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  4:05                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12  4:25                   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  4:38                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12  4:53                       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  5:27                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12  6:25                           ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  6:46                             ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-08-12  6:51                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-12  6:59                               ` Hongyi Zhao
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