Find Shortest element in Array

Question

I have a Array

string[] names = { "Jim Rand", "Barry Williams", "Nicole Dyne", "Peter Levitt", "Jane Jones", "Cathy Hortings"};

Is there any way to find which is the shortest(Length wise) element in this array and then store rest of elements in a different array.

Thanks, Ani

Answer 1

In C#, .Net 3.5:

string shortestName = names.Aggregate((n1, n2)=>n1.Length<n2.Length?n1:n2);

This is how you can store other elements in other array

var otherArrays = names.Exclude(new List<string>(){shortestName});

Answer 2

var orderedNames = names.OrderBy(name => name.Length);

string shortestName = orderedNames.First();

string[] otherNames = orderedNames.Skip(1).ToArray();