find longest word in a string

Question

Currently trying to figure out how to find the longest word in as string and my research has gotten me somewhere. I found a code on SO that shows the amount of alphabets in

Answer 1

I think the easiest solution is to split, sort the array by length and then pick the first element of the array.

function longest(str) { 

 var arr = str.split(" ");

 var sorted = arr.sort(function (a,b) {return b.length > a.length;});

return sorted[0];

}

If you want the length, just add .length to return sorted[0].