Answer:
Explanation:
The following code is written in Python. It is a function that takes in the file location as a parameter and reads it. It then splits the text into a list and loops through the list. The length of every element is compared to the value in the variable length and if it is larger it saves that words length to the variable length and saves the word to the variable longestWord. These variables get printed at the end of the program. A test case has been provided and can be seen in the image below.
import re
def longestWordInFile(file):
file = open(file, 'r')
text = file.read()
wordList = text.lower()
wordList = re.split('\s', wordList)
length = 0
longestWord = ''
for word in wordList:
if len(word) > length:
length = len(word)
longestWord = word
print(longestWord + " is the longest with " + str(length) + " characters.")
