[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

I find that the .map method here helps a lot (this is if you want the character count of the word, not the word itself):

 function findLongestWord(str) {   
   var array = str.split(/\s+/);
   var wordLength = array.map(function(i) {
     return i.length;                       
   });   
   var largest = Math.max.apply(Math, wordLength);   
   return largest; 
}