Finding longest word in array

Question

I am currently working on a problem in coderbytes. I am supposed to create a function that takes in a string and returns the longest word in the string(no punctuation will be in the string and if there are two words the same size the function should return the first one). I was able to find a similar question Find the longest word/string in an array , but for some reason my code is not working.

var longestword = function(string){
    var longest = [];
    array = string.split(" ");
    for(var i = 0; i <= array.length; i++){
        if(array[i].length > longest.length){
        longest = array[i];    
        }
    }
console.log(longest)
}    
longestword("This isnt workin for some reason")

The error I am getting is TypeError: array[i] is undefined

Answer 1

Your condition is i <= array.length , but array indexes (for non-sparse arrays like this one) are 0 through array.length - 1 . Just use < , not <= . You're getting undefined for array[i] when i is array.length because there's no element there.

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Unrelated, but: Your code is falling prey to The Horror of Implicit Globals because you never declare array . Add a var in front of array = string.split(" ");

Answer 2

You can't access array[array.length]. Arrays are 0-based. Change the <= to an <.