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HTML
<div><input type="text" id="ipField">
<button type="button" onclick="findGreatest()">Click</button></div>
<div id='repWord'></div>
JavaScript
function findGreatest() {
var getString = document.getElementById('ipField').value.toLowerCase();
var finalArray = [];
var strArray = [];
var tempArray = [];
strArray = (getString.split(" "));
// Take only those words which has repeated letter
for (var i = 0, j = strArray.length; i < j; i++) {
if ((/([a-zA-Z]).*?\1/).test(strArray[i])) {
tempArray.push(strArray[i]);
}
}
if (tempArray.length == 0) { // If no word with repeated Character
console.log('No such Word');
return -1;
} else { // If array has words with repeated character
for (var x = 0, y = tempArray.length; x < y; x++) {
var m = findRepWord(tempArray[x]); // Find number of repeated character in it
finalArray.push({
name: tempArray[x],
repeat: m
})
}
// Sort this array to get word with largest repeated chars
finalArray.sort(function(z, a) {
return a.repeat - z.repeat
})
document.getElementById('repWord').textContent=finalArray[0].name;
}
}
// Function to find the word which as highest repeated character(s)
function findRepWord(str) {
try {
return str.match(/(.)\1+/g).length;
} catch (e) {
return 0;
} // if TypeError
}