Basic Algorithm Scripting - Find the Longest Word in a String

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1

hi there
Running this code to find the longest word in a string

function findLongestWordLength(str) {

let arr= str.split('');
let longest =0;

for( let i =0;i < arr.length;i++){

  for(let j=0; j<arr.lenght;j++){

if(arr[j].length >arr[i].length){
    longest=arr[j].length;
  }

  }
  
}
console.log(longest)
  return longest;
}

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

my console.log(longest ) is printing 0 which means my value is not being assigned to longest however i’m unsure as to why

2

There is a typo in the word length

You didn’t see any error message with this code?

3

Also this code will always evaluate to false.
What do you get if you try to log what arr[i] is? And arr[j]?

Try logging the statements you are using to the left and right of the greater than operator also.
(Log them just above the if statement).