Write a function to find the longest word in a sentence.
Write a function called findLongestWord that takes string as argument sentence of type string and return longest word in sentence.
// Function to find longest word in sentence
function findLongestWord(sentence) {
// Split sentence words into array of words
const words = sentence.split(" ");
let longestWord = "";
// Run for of loop
for (let word of words) {
if (word.length > longestWord.length) {
longestWord = word;
}
}
return longestWord;
}
The function findLongestWord takes string as argument and convert all words of sentence in array of word using split() method and array of word called words. After that using for of loop for each word checking condition if any word’s length is more than current longestWord's length assign that word in longestWord.