Thanks got it!!! 
You assume, that max input length is 100, why?
See the second test case - Xxe1sf - Online C++ Compiler & Debugging Tool - Ideone.com (answer is not 4 for sure)
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Can you help me where i m getting wrong
thank you so much
for input
1
<<>
your code returns 2, but correct is 0
Thanks a lot!
Hadn’t understood the question clearly…
combination of statements
char* a[500];
// ...
a[m][j]
is strange isn’t it?
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Actually,
i used to work on Turbo c++ and it used to work on it.
and also i am new to codeshef.
But Yes It seems strange,
ObhNFA - Online C++ Compiler & Debugging Tool - Ideone.com,
its working now but ,
time limit exceed,
but i m trying to develop better logic.
You was kind of lucky, your code is not working on ideone I had to change
Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
String str = s.nextLine();
to
//Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);
String str = rea.nextLine();
and the code returns 0 4 0 for input from problem statement UyDMNu - Online IDE & Debugging Tool - Ideone.com , can you fork it and fix it on ideone?
Your code is not working on ideone, can you fix it? 1AnFUY - Online IDE & Debugging Tool - Ideone.com I used your last submission in practice…
try this test case <<>.The answer should be 0 , but ur code gives 2.
@rishab
why so coz <<> last two brackets are matching which is the case with the official test case of <>>> which gives 2 as output.
plz clarify it 
you should output the length of the longest prefix
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thanku got it
ad hoc means something that is not known in advance
ANswer for ><<>> should be 0
Why so ?? I can see that I have valid string of length 4 here
Read the problem statement carefully it has asked for length of longest valid ‘prefix’ , so the expression must start with ‘<’. Hope it helps!
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They have asked “Prefix”. Read question again. Even first ‘>’ gives answer 0 as there is no valid prefix. There is no need to check further.