#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
 
int main() {
    char str[200], temp[200];
    char *token;
    char shortest[50];
    int firstWord = 1;
 
    printf("Enter a sentence: ");
    fgets(str, sizeof(str), stdin);
    str[strcspn(str, "\n")] = '\0'; // remove newline character
 
    strcpy(temp, str); // copy sentence for tokenization
 
    token = strtok(temp, " ");
    while (token != NULL) {
        if (firstWord) {
            strcpy(shortest, token);
            firstWord = 0;
        } else if (strlen(token) < strlen(shortest)) {
            strcpy(shortest, token);
        }
        token = strtok(NULL, " ");
    }
 
    printf("\nThe shortest word is: %s\n", shortest);
 
    return 0;
}