[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

Code below will find the largest word and its length from a string. Code is in plain JavaScript and html.

function findLongestWord() {
  var str = document.getElementById('inputText').value;
  calculateLength(str);
}

function calculateLength(str) {
  var substring = str.split(" ");
  var minChar = '';
  for (var i = 0; i <= substring.length - 1; i++) {
    if (substring[i].length >= minChar.length) {
      minChar = substring[i];
    }
  }
  document.getElementById('longChar').innerHTML = 'Longest Word: ' + minChar;
  document.getElementById('longCharLength').innerHTML = 'Longest Word length: ' + minChar.length;
}

   

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