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

Try using the following code sample:

function findLongestWord(str){
  var arr=[];
  arr=str.split(' ');
  arr=arr.sort(function(a,b){
    return b.length-a.length;
  });
  var st=arr[0];
  return st.length;
}

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