[removed] find longest word in a string

Question

function longestWord(string) {
    var str = string.split(\" \");
    var longest = 0;
    var word = null;
    for (var i = 0; i < str.length - 1; i++) {
                


        

Answer 1

You have a -1 in your condition, it never even scans it:

for (var i = 0; i < str.length - 1; i++) {

Should be:

for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/LfgFk/