PHP: Get the longest string (or length) in an array

To quickly get the longest string in an array, use the following function.

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1.function longest_string_in_array($array) {   

2.  $mapping = array_combine($array, array_map('strlen', $array));    

3.  return array_keys($mapping, max($mapping));    

4.}

If you need the length of the longest string, use this little snippet.

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1.$maxlen = max(array_map('strlen', $array));

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• Hayley Watson
• stereofrog