Find the longest word in a string using javascript

Question

I\'m trying to find the longest word in a string, but it continually returns the length of the first word. Any ideas?

Here\'s my code:

function findL         


        

Answer 1

Your return statement is misplaced, put it after the loop :

function findLongestWord(str) {

   var words = str.split(' ');
   var longest = 0;

   for (var i=0;i longest) {
             longest = words[i].length;
        }  
   }

   return longest;
}