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Counting in prolog

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othererik

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I am trying to find the largest word out of several thousand instances of word(apple). word(bob). .. and so on. I am a noobie at this, but here is my current (not working) attempt:
maxlength(Start):-
word(X),
equal(Counter, Start),
string_atom(Y, X),
string_length(Y, Length),
Length > Counter ->
(cntr_set(Counter, Length), write(Counter);
write($Not Greater$)),
write(Counter), write(Length).

Any help would be wonderful.
 
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