iostream

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>
#include <iterator>

using namespace std;

template <class InputIterator>
void filter_string( InputIterator first, InputIterator last,
       string filt_elems = string("/",?."))
{
 for ( ; first != last; first++ )
 {
  string::size_type pos = 0;
  while (( pos = (*first).find_first_of( filt_elems, pos ))
   != string::npos )
   (*first).erase( pos, 1 );
 }
}

bool length_less(const string & s1, const string & s2)
{
 return s1.size() < s2.size() ;
}

void main()
{
 istream_iterator<string>  input(cin), eos;
 vector<string> text;
 
 copy(input, eos, back_inserter(text));
 
 string filt_elems("/",.?;:");
 filter_string(text.begin(), text.end(), filt_elems);
 
 int cnt = text.size();
 
 string * max = max_element(text.begin(), text.end(), length_less);
 
 int len = max->size();
}