I want to calculate the length of the longest stri...

# codereview

[Dominaezzz]

I want to calculate the length of the longest string of characters in a string that don't contain a \n.

val text = "some te\nxt about stuff\nshort"
text.split('\n').map { it.length }.max() // 14

Can I do this without creating new string objects and still be functional?

[gildor]

Just use standard imperative loop and iterate on string chars and increment counter?

[dumptruckman]

Out of curiosity, why?

[Dominaezzz]

I just happen to be converting html tables (jsoup) to markdown for a generated KDoc. Some of the columns entries have \n and I need to calculate the width of the column.

[ursus]

maxBy { it.lenght } gives you the longest string