Accelerated C++<3-4>

//编写一个程序用于报告它的输入中最长以及最短字符串的长度

Hint

For each word that is input, keep track of the shortest and longest words you’ve encountered.

Solution

Create two variables of type string::size_type: one to hold the shortest size, and one to hold the longest size. As the program proceeds through the input loop it first checks to see if shortest_size has been assigned a value other than zero. If not, it assigns it the first string’s size; otherwise it checks to see if the current string is shortest than shortest_size. It then checks to see if the current string is longer than longest_size.

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;


int main(){
//提示用户输入 
cout<<"please enter a few words,followed by end-of-file"<<endl;

string::size_type shortest_size=0;
string::size_type longest_size=0;

string word;
while(cin>>word)
{
//如果shortest_size值为0，则它还未被分配，，否则，看当前值是否更短，如果是，将当前值的尺寸赋给shortest_size 
if(shortest_size==0||word.size()<shortest_size)
shortest_size=word.size();

//看当前值长度是否比longest_size长，如果是，则将当前值长度赋给longest_size 
if(word.size()>longest_size)
longest_size=word.size();
}

//最后输出 
cout<<"The length of the shortest word is: "<<shortest_size<<endl
<<"The length of the longest word is: "<<longest_size<<endl;

return 0;
}