Find the longest word in a string?

Question

I am trying to write a basic javascript function to find the longest word in a string and log it\'s length.

So far I have:

function findLongestWord(         


        

Answer 1

Try

function longestWord(string) {
    var str = string.split(" ");
    var longest = 0;
    var word = null;
    for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
        if (longest < str[i].length) {
            longest = str[i].length;
            word = str[i];
        }
    }
    return word;
}