I have been told to review these peices of code: 
#commandline.pl

#\!C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
$y=0;
for $x (@ARGV)
{print "argument $y is $ARGV[$y] \n";$y++;}

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#split.pl

#\!C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe
while($input=<STDIN>)
{
@line=split(" " ,$input);
$i=0;
for $word (@line)
    {
    $len=length($word);
    print " word $i = '$word' has a length of $len \n";
    $i++;
    }
}

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Now I must modify the code above and the question is... Write a perl script which prints out the value and length of its longest command line argument. For example, running the script with argument a b df ert and y produces,

>perl longest.pl a b df ert y

>perl longest argument is "ert" - length = 3

Can someone modify the code above to do this for me (I have tried), I am learning alone this is not homework but in lab questions that do not have to be completed. I obviously want to learn.

In reply to Simple Perl, to get me started. by Lust69

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