From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-29T23:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Array.which_long? ( I coded an extension for Array )

On 4/29/07, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> You're doing too much work -- let Ruby do it :-)
... for sure, but
>
>   class Array
>     def longest
>       map {|e| e.to_s }.max
>     end
>   end
I think it is not exactly what OP wanted
because %w{x aaaa}.max is "x"
so I will try to comply to his needs
def longest
    map{ |e| [e.to_s.size, e.to_s]}.max.first
end

HTH
Robert
>
>
> David
>
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