Revise the main routine of the longest-line program so it will correctly print the length of arbitrarily long input lines, and as much as possible of the text.

#include <stdio.h>
#define MAXLINE 1000       /*maximum input line size */

int getline(char line[], int maxline);
void copy(char to[], char from[]);

/*print longest input line */
int main(){
     int len;                               /*current line length */
     int max;                        /*maximum length seen so far */
    char line[MAXLINE];          /*longest line save here */

    max = 0;
    while((len = getline(line, MAXLINE)) > 0){
         printf("%d  , %s", len, line);
         if (len > max){
             max = len;
             copy(longest, line);
         }
    }
     if(max > 0)       /* there was a line */
        printf("%s", longest);
     return 0;
}
/*getline: read a line into s, return length    */
int getline(char s[], int lim)
{
     int c, i, j;
     j =0;
     for(i =0; (c =getchar()) != EOF && c != '\n'; ++i)
           if (i < lim -2){
               s[j] = c;       /* line still in boundaries */
               ++j;
           }
    if (c == '\n'){
         s[j] = c;
         ++j;
         ++i;
    }
     s[j] = '\0';
     return i;
}
/*copy: copy 'from' into 'to'; */
void copy(char to[], char from[])
{
    int i;
    i =0;
    while((to[i] = from[i]) != '\0')
          ++i;
     
}

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