I dont understand this and am not able to find my mistake please help

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
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  **Your code so far**


function findLongestWordLength(str) {
let words = str.split('');
let maxLength = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
  if (words[i].length > maxLength) {
    maxLength = words[i].length;
  }
}
return maxLength;
}
findLongestWordLength("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");

  **Your browser information:**

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Find the Longest Word in a String

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have you tried using console.log to check the values of the various variables you have inside the function?

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I’d be especially interested to know what the array words is storing.

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