[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 can simplify your code with a library like Lo-Dash:

function longestWord(string) {
    var words = string.split(' ');
    return _.max(words, function(word) { return word.length; });
}