Find the longest word in a string using javascript

Question

I\'m trying to find the longest word in a string, but it continually returns the length of the first word. Any ideas?

Here\'s my code:

function findL         


        

Answer 1

function findLongestWord(str) {
  //This is what I  used to find how many characters were in the largest word
  return str
          .replace(/[^\w ]/g,'')                            
          .split(' ')                                       
          .sort(function(a, b) {return a.length-b.length;}) 
          .pop().length;                                           

}
findLongestWord('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog');