Find the shortest string in array

Question

How can i find the shortest string in javascript array with different count of array elements? I used

var min = Math.min(arr[0].length,arr[1].length,arr[2]         


        

Answer 1

Please see this short solution below. I hope it helps:

var arr = ['cats', 'giants', 'daughters', 'ice'];    
arr.sort(); // ice, cats, giants, daughters
var shortest_element = arr[0]; // ice