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

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// Bonfire: Find the Longest Word in a String
// Author: @mtroiani
// 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 arrayOfStrings = str.split(" ");
  var maxLength = 0;
  for (var i=0; i < arrayOfStrings.length; i++) {
    if (arrayOfStrings[i].length > maxLength) {
      maxLength = arrayOfStrings[i].length;
    }
  }
  return maxLength;
}

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