find the longest record in a file 1

[mwesticle]

I need to run something ('awk', 'sed', etc.) that will let me know what the longest record in a file is. And I need it to ignore spaces. So, if I have a file with records that look like this (without the ticks):

'John Doe'
'Al Doe'
'Christopher Doe'
'Jill Doe'

I want the returned result to somehow let me know that the longest length record in the file is 15 bytes ('Christopher Doe'). I don't even care which record it is, I just need the longesth length. Anyone know how to do this?

 

[vgersh99]

nawk '
{ if (length($0) > max) {
max=length($0);
str= $0
}
} END{ printf("max->[%d] str->[%s]\n", max, str)}' file.txt

vlad
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