Compare length of two strings

Given two strings of different length, determine which string is longer or shorter. Print both strings and their length, one on each line. Print the longer one first.

Compare length of two strings
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

Basic Data Operation
This is a basic data operation. It represents a fundamental action on a basic data type.

You may see other such operations in the Basic Data Operations category, or:

Integer Operations
Arithmetic | Comparison

Boolean Operations
Bitwise | Logical

String Operations
Concatenation | Interpolation | Comparison | Matching

Memory Operations
Pointers & references | Addresses

Task

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• Array length
• String length
• Copy a string
• Empty string  (assignment)

Counting

• Word frequency
• Letter frequency
• Jewels and stones
• I before E except after C
• Bioinformatics/base count
• Count occurrences of a substring
• Count how many vowels and consonants occur in a string

Remove/replace

• XXXX redacted
• Conjugate a Latin verb
• Remove vowels from a string
• String interpolation (included)
• Strip block comments
• Strip comments from a string
• Strip a set of characters from a string
• Strip whitespace from a string -- top and tail
• Strip control codes and extended characters from a string

Anagrams/Derangements/shuffling

• Word wheel
• ABC problem
• Sattolo cycle
• Knuth shuffle
• Ordered words
• Superpermutation minimisation
• Textonyms (using a phone text pad)
• Anagrams
• Anagrams/Deranged anagrams
• Permutations/Derangements

Find/Search/Determine

• ABC words
• Odd words
• Word ladder
• Semordnilap
• Word search
• Wordiff  (game)
• String matching
• Tea cup rim text
• Alternade words
• Changeable words
• State name puzzle
• String comparison
• Unique characters
• Unique characters in each string
• Extract file extension
• Levenshtein distance
• Palindrome detection
• Common list elements
• Longest common suffix
• Longest common prefix
• Compare a list of strings
• Longest common substring
• Find common directory path
• Words from neighbour ones
• Change e letters to i in words
• Non-continuous subsequences
• Longest common subsequence
• Longest palindromic substrings
• Longest increasing subsequence
• Words containing "the" substring
• Sum of the digits of n is substring of n
• Determine if a string is numeric
• Determine if a string is collapsible
• Determine if a string is squeezable
• Determine if a string has all unique characters
• Determine if a string has all the same characters
• Longest substrings without repeating characters
• Find words which contains all the vowels
• Find words which contains most consonants
• Find words which contains more than 3 vowels
• Find words which first and last three letters are equals
• Find words which odd letters are consonants and even letters are vowels or vice_versa

Formatting

• Substring
• Rep-string
• Word wrap
• String case
• Align columns
• Literals/String
• Repeat a string
• Brace expansion
• Brace expansion using ranges
• Reverse a string
• Phrase reversals
• Comma quibbling
• Special characters
• String concatenation
• Substring/Top and tail
• Commatizing numbers
• Reverse words in a string
• Suffixation of decimal numbers
• Long literals, with continuations
• Numerical and alphabetical suffixes
• Abbreviations, easy
• Abbreviations, simple
• Abbreviations, automatic

Song lyrics/poems/Mad Libs/phrases

• Mad Libs
• Magic 8-ball
• 99 Bottles of Beer
• The Name Game (a song)
• The Old lady swallowed a fly
• The Twelve Days of Christmas

Tokenize

• Text between
• Tokenize a string
• Word break problem
• Tokenize a string with escaping
• Split a character string based on change of character

Sequences

• Show ASCII table
• De Bruijn sequences
• Self-referential sequences
• Generate lower case ASCII alphabet

Z80 Assembly

<lang z80>Terminator equ 0 ;null terminator PrintChar equ &BB5A ;Amstrad CPC BIOS call, prints accumulator to screen as an ASCII character.

       org &8000

ld hl,String1 ld de,String2 call CompareStringLengths

jp nc, Print_HL_First ex de,hl Print_HL_First: push bc push hl call PrintString pop hl push hl ld a,' ' call PrintChar call getStringLength ld a,b call ShowHex_NoLeadingZeroes call NewLine pop hl pop bc

ex de,hl push bc push hl call PrintString pop hl push hl ld a,' ' call PrintChar call getStringLength ld a,b call ShowHex_NoLeadingZeroes call NewLine pop hl pop bc ReturnToBasic: RET

String1: byte "Hello",Terminator String2: byte "Goodbye",Terminator

RELEVANT SUBROUTINES - SOME OF THESE CREATED BY KEITH S. OF CHIBIAKUMAS

NewLine: push af ld a,13 ;Carriage return call PrintChar ld a,10 ;Line Feed call PrintChar pop af ret

PrintString: ld a,(hl) cp Terminator ret z inc hl call PrintChar jr PrintString

GetStringLength: ld b,0 loop_getStringLength: ld a,(hl) cp Terminator ret z inc hl inc b jr loop_getStringLength ShowHex_NoLeadingZeroes:

useful for printing values where leading zeroes don't make sense,

such as money etc.

push af and %11110000 ifdef gbz80 ;game boy swap a else ;zilog z80 rrca rrca rrca rrca endif cp 0 call nz,PrintHexChar ;if top nibble of A is zero, don't print it. pop af and %00001111 cp 0 ret z ;if bottom nibble of A is zero, don't print it! call PrintHexChar

PrintHexChar: or a ;Clear Carry Flag daa add a,&F0 adc a,&40 ;This sequence converts a 4-bit hex digit to its ASCII equivalent. jp PrintChar</lang>