[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

The index is going up to str.length -1:

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

So the last word is not processed.

Try with: longestWord("Pride AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and Prejudice"). You'll see it works (returns AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA).

In case you're in doubt, the simplest way to fix it is removing the -1 from the for loop.

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

Check a demo with both versions (the problematic and the fixed): link here.