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Find the Longest Word in a String

Return the length of the longest word in the provided sentence.

Your response should be a number.

Remember to use Read-Search-Ask if you get stuck. Write your own code.

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

findLongestWord("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog");