Finding longest string in array

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Available since Javascript 1.8/ECMAScript 5 and available in most older browsers:

var longest = arr.reduce(
    function (a, b) {
        return a.length > b.length ? a : b;
    }
);

Otherwise, a safe alternative:

var longest = arr.sort(
    function (a, b) {
        return b.length - a.length;
    }
)[0];

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