http://www.freecodecamp.com/patrickcurl 's solution for Bonfire: Find the Longest Word in a String

bonfire-find-the-longest-word-in-a-string#.js

// Bonfire: Find the Longest Word in a String
// Author: @patrickcurl
// Challenge: http://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/bonfire-find-the-longest-word-in-a-string#
// Learn to Code at Free Code Camp (www.freecodecamp.com)

function findLongestWord(str) {
  var words = str.split(" ");
  var longestWord = words[0];
  
  for(i=0;i<words.length;i++){
    if(words[i].length > longestWord.length){
      longestWord = words[i];
    }
  }
  return longestWord.length;
}

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