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Longest Even Word

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Longest Even Word

A sentence is made of words separated by spaces. Your task is to find the longest word whose length is even. If multiple even-length words share the maximum length, return the one that appears first. If the sentence does not contain any even-length word, return -1.

Examples

Example 1
Input:
Time to write great code
Output:
Time

Explanation: The even-length words are Time, to, and code. Time and code both have length 4, but Time appears first.

Approach hint

Split the sentence into words.

Common mistake

Skipping assumptions, edge cases, or trade-offs can make an otherwise good answer feel incomplete.

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