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Replies for: I think the best way you can obtain the most lengthy string in an array is this: const mostLengthy = someArray .reduce((acc, i) => ...

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Matthieu • • Edited

You can also do this way I believe (sort by the length of the words in descending order, then pick the first one).

const mostLengthy = someArray.sort((x, y) => y.length - x.length)[0]
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Maybe it's more understandable ? But I agree reduce is great :).

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