From: Paul McKibbin <pmckibbin@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T00:05:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Extracting the shortest string from an array

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Hi,

You could use

array.min {|x,y| x.size <=3D> y.size}

to force a min to use sizes rather then their natural order

Mac

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM, I=F1aki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:

> Hi, given the following array:
>
>  array =3D ["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.
>
> --
> I=F1aki Baz Castillo
> <ibc@aliax.net>
>
>

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