Tell us what’s happening:
Not sure why its not passing. I put in VSCode and ran in web and output was as needed.
Your code so far
function findLongestWordLength(str) {
str = str.split(" ")
for (i=0; i<(str.length-1) ; i){
let wordOne = str[i].split("")
let wordTwo = str[i+1].split("")
if (wordOne.length >= wordTwo.length){
str.splice(i+1,1)
} else {
str.splice(i,1)
} } longNum = str[0].split("")
return longNum.length }
findLongestWordLength("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");
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Challenge: Find the Longest Word in a String
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Hi and welcome to the forum!
The error in the freeCodeCamp editor says
ReferenceError: assignment to undeclared variable i
Looking back at your code
you never declared i
Side note - the fact that you are not incrementing i
is an indication that you are using the wrong sort of control structure for this problem.
function findLongestWordLength(str) {
str = str.split(" ")
for (i=0; i<(str.length-1); i) {
let wordOne = str[i].split("")
let wordTwo = str[i+1].split("")
if (wordOne.length >= wordTwo.length) {
str.splice(i+1, 1)
} else {
str.splice(i, 1)
}
}
longNum = str[0].split("")
return longNum.length
}
I went ahead and formatted your code to make it easier for others to read, understand, and help.
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Thank you so much. Do you suggest a “for while” instead?
ilenia
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there is not a “for while” loop, but a while loop or a do…while loop could work for you in this case
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Thank you and excuse my ignorant statement.
system
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