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 in the wrong place, as mccainz said, however you should also be saving the word if you want to return the actual word.

function findLongestWord(str) {
  var words = str.split(' ');
  var longestLength = 0;
  var longestWord;
  for (var i=0;i longestLength) {
       longestLength = words[i].length;
       longestWord = words[i];
    }
  }
  return longestWord;
}