From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Find the longest word in the word list file. Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:09:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6loarpi.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16737"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PSjqfcCGn30UhxIxSChSpF2hySk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 18:10:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDqnu-00046w-OI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:10:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50568 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDqnt-0006ia-Dw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDqna-0006iL-3U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:54400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDqnX-0002TE-FL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDqnU-0003US-Jo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:09:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132461 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao wrote: > 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 #! /bin/zsh longest-line () { local f=$1 awk '{ print length($0) " " $0; }' $f | sort -n | tail -1 } $ longest-line american-english-insane 60 Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch's > But in Emacs, what is the elisp implementation for the > above task? This is one better suited for the shell IMO. Hm... is that really a word? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal