This functions can be used to prevent users from causing overflows with “words” of excessive length.
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function longestWord($sentence){
$arr_words = explode(" ",$sentence);
foreach($arr_words as $eWord){
$eLen = strlen($eWord);
if ($longest < $eLen){
$longest = $eLen;
}
}
return $longest;
}
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