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:::: If you can read the file twice then there's no need to keep an accumulator. Read once to find longest length, read again, along the way print anything that long. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 07:47, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
::::: Ah, obvious (now that I'm up and had coffee). As worded the task also doesn't necessarily prohibit the use of a temporary file either. In Icon a file is a datatype and could be argued as a cheat. Not sure about other languages. --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 15:13, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
:::::: The more I think about rereading and see some of the discussion on it, I think it should be forbidden. --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 04:18, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
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