http://www.freecodecamp.com/mattnwa '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: @mattnwa
// 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) {
  strSplit = str.split(' ');
  var longest = 0;
  
  for(var i =0; strSplit.length >i; i++){
    if (strSplit[i].length > longest){
      longest = strSplit[i].length;
    }
  }
  
  
  return longest;
}

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

I initially struggled to get through this lesson and had to search quite a bit to understand the plan behind each step. I knew this would have to use a for loop to create the array position and then to select the total length of that array. Once i noticed that a variable to "catch" the end result was an easy solution I was able to then compare the current array item length with the current longest word.