Write a program to prompt the user to input

Write a program to prompt the user to input several lines of input. A line of inputs is terminated by '*'. For each readline of input the program should output:(use pointer notation for the array)
. The total # of words
. The lenght of the longest word in the line
At the end the program should output:
. The total number of words read in all lines of input
. The lenght of the longest word read in all lines of input