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9/7/2018 - 1:22 PM

longestWord

Return the longest word of a string If more than one longest word, put into an array ex. longestWord('Hello, my name is Brad') === 'hello' ex. longestWord('Hello there, my name is Brad') === ['hello', 'there']

longestWord.js
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function longestWord(sen) {
  // Create filtered array
  const wordArr = sen.toLowerCase().match(/[a-z0-9]+/g);

  // Sort by length
  const sorted = wordArr.sort((a, b) => b.length - a.length);

  // If multiple words, put into array
  const longestWordArr = sorted.filter(
    word => word.length === sorted[0].length
  );

  // Check if more than one array val
  if (longestWordArr.length === 1) {
    // Return the word
    return longestWordArr[0];
  } else {
    return longestWordArr;
  }
}