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Olawale/FreeCodeCamp: Find Longest Word in a String
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function findLongestWord(str) { | |
//Split each word into an array | |
var arrayString = str.split(" "); | |
// longest_so_far as declared before looping | |
var longest_so_far = 0; | |
// Let us loop to find the largest items | |
for (var i = 0; i < arrayString.length; i++) { | |
// Is the length of the current item greater than value of longest_so_far? | |
//If so, longest_so_far would now be the value of the length of the current item | |
if(arrayString[i].length > longest_so_far){ longest_so_far = arrayString[i].length;} | |
}// End of loop; | |
// Return longest_so_far's value which would be the length of the longest string | |
return longest_so_far; | |
}// End of function | |
// This could be done with less code using Maths.max() in combination with arr.map(); |
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