Hey everyone,
This code doesn’t work when used on the following string: “What if we try a super-long word such as otorhinolaryngology”. It should return 19 because this is the length of the longest word, but instead, it returns 4. I can’t figure out why is it happening. Please help me to understand, and hope you have a great day
Tell us what’s happening:
Your code so far
function findLongestWordLength(str) {
var myLenght;
var numbers = [];
var i;
var arr = str.split(" ");
for (i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
myLenght = arr[i].length;
numbers.push(myLenght);
}
numbers.sort();
return numbers.slice(-1)[0];
}
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