Find the Longest Word in a String review

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:
Can you please tell me if this approach is okay?

Your code so far

function findLongestWordLength(str) {
 const inputArr = str.split(' ');
 let outputArr = [];
 for (let i = 0; i < inputArr.length; i ++){
   outputArr[i] = inputArr[i].length;
 }  
 return Math.max.apply(null, outputArr);
}
findLongestWordLength("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-algorithm-scripting/find-the-longest-word-in-a-string

2

Looks sound from here – but did it pass?

3

Thanks for reply, It did. I was just wondering if the array sort approach to find max is better in terms of performance.

4

Your solution is fast enough. The only way your solution wouldn’t work is if you had (2 * 32) - 1 words…, then Math.max() wouldn’t work.

5

thank you for feedback.!

6