longestSentence.js

"use strict";

function longestSentence(text) {
  let sentences = text.match(/[a-z][^.!?]*[.!?]/ig)
  let longest = getLongestSentence(sentences);
  
  console.log(longest + '\n');
  console.log(`The longest sentence has ${getWordCount(longest)} words.`);
}

function getLongestSentence(sentences) {
  let longToShort = sentences.sort((sent1, sent2) => getWordCount(sent2) - getWordCount(sent1));
  return longToShort[0];
}

function getWordCount(sentence) {
  return sentence.match(/[^ .!?]+/g).length;
}

let longText = 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth' +
  ' on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and' +
  ' dedicated to the proposition that all men are created' +
  ' equal.' +
  ' Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether' +
  ' that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated,' +
  ' can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that' +
  ' war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as' +
  ' a final resting place for those who here gave their lives' +
  ' that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and' +
  ' proper that we should do this.' +
  ' But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not' +
  ' consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave' +
  ' men, living and dead, who struggled here, have' +
  ' consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or' +
  ' detract. The world will little note, nor long remember' +
  ' what we say here, but it can never forget what they' +
  ' did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated' +
  ' here to the unfinished work which they who fought' +
  ' here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for' +
  ' us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining' +
  ' before us -- that from these honored dead we take' +
  ' increased devotion to that cause for which they gave' +
  ' the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly' +
  ' resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain' +
  ' -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth' +
  ' of freedom -- and that government of the people, by' +
  ' the people, for the people, shall not perish from the' +
  ' earth.';

longestSentence(longText);



// console output
// It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored 
// dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- 
// that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, 
// shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

// The longest sentence has 86 words.


// Assuming the last sentence is removed:

// longestSentence(longText);

// console output
// Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

// The longest sentence has 30 words.