http://www.freecodecamp.com/thetinybeaker 's solution for Bonfire: Find the Longest Word in a String

bonfire-find-the-longest-word-in-a-string.js

// Bonfire: Find the Longest Word in a String
// Author: @thetinybeaker
// Challenge: http://www.freecodecamp.com/challenges/bonfire-find-the-longest-word-in-a-string
// Learn to Code at Free Code Camp (www.freecodecamp.com)

function findLongestWord(str) {
  // split up the words and put them into an array
  var words = str.split(' ');
  // make an empty array to put the lengths of each words into
  var numbers = [];

// for loop. start at 0 (because arrays are zero-indexed, go until length of the word array, add 1 each time )
 for (i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
   // set var wordLength to length of each word
    var wordLength = words[i].length;
    //push each length into the empty array, numbers
    numbers.push(wordLength);
  }
  //return the biggest value
  return Math.max.apply(Math, numbers);
}

findLongestWord("What if we try a super-long word such as otorhinolaryngology");