Find The Longest Word

Author: Thea

longestword.js

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+//with a FOR LOOP
+function findLongestWord(str) {
+  var strSplit = str.split(' ');
+  var longestWord = 0;
+  for(var i = 0; i < strSplit.length; i++){
+    if(strSplit[i].length > longestWord){
+	longestWord = strSplit[i].length;
+     }
+  }
+  return longestWord;
+}
+
+findLongestWord("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"); // jumped
+
+
+
+
+//with the sort() method
+function findLongestWord(str) {
+  var longestWord = str.split(' ').sort(function(a, b) {
+   return b.length - a.length; 
+});
+  return longestWord[0].length;
+}