Basic Algorithm Scripting - Find the Longest Word in a String

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
Hi everybody!
This code of mine works for all strings except the last, with the last word which is the longest with 19 chars…can you please explain me why?

Your code so far

function findLongestWordLength(str) {
let count = 0;
let record = ;
let result = 0;
for(let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
if(str[i] === " "){
record.push(count);
count = 0;
}
else {
count++;
}
}
for(let k = 0; k < record.length; k++) {
if(record[k] > result) {
result = record[k];
}
}
return result;
}

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

function findLongestWordLength(str) {
  let count = 0;
  let record = [];
  let result = 0;
  for(let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
      if(str[i] === " "){
        record.push(count);
        count = 0;
      }
      else {
        count++;
      }    
  }
  for(let k = 0; k < record.length; k++) {
      if(record[k] > result) {
        result = record[k];
      }
  }
  return result;
}

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

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Are you positive you are are pushing the count of every word in the sentence into the record array?

Try adding console.log(record) after the first for loop.

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