From: Thorsten Hater <th@...1.rub.de>
Date: 2011-03-04T00:02:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting the shortest string from an array

Hi,

in Ruby 1.9 this should work:

   arr.sort_by(&:length)[0]

or more portable/readable (1.8 compatible):

   arr.sort_by{|s| s.length }[0]


Am 03.03.2011 15:47, schrieb I単aki Baz Castillo:
> Hi, given the following array:
>
>    array = ["qwe", "qwerty"]
>
> How to get the shortest element ("qwe") from the array?
> I whink I must inspect all the elements within the array and manually
> select the shortest string, do I miss some cool feature of Array class
> or Enumerable module?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>