Help me Find the Longest Word in a String

JavaScript
#1

Tell us what’s happening:

i have no idea why it keeps saying my function is undefined. can you help me

Your code so far


function findLongestWord(str) {
  var strSplit = str.split(' ');
  var longestWord = 0;
  for(var i = 0; i < strSplit.length; i++){
    if(strSplit[i].length > longestWord){
	longestWord = strSplit[i].length;
     }
  }
  return longestWord;
}
findLongestWord("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

I just checked it on the console and the code works perfectly. Try to change your browser to chrome , may be it will work.

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#3

Hi asutton,

The problem is the name of your function, you must use this name “findLongestWordLength” for that exercise

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#4