Java: Finding the shortest word in a string and printing it out

Question

I\'m a novice with Java. I took a class in C, so I\'m trying to get myself out of that mode of thinking. The program I\'m writing has a section in which the user enters an i

Answer 1

Here's a version that makes use of Java 8's Stream API:

String sentence = "PROGRAMMING IS FUN";
List words = Arrays.asList(sentence.split(" "));

String shortestWord = words.stream().min(
                                     Comparator.comparing(
                                     word -> word.length()))
                                    .get();

System.out.println(shortestWord);

You can also sort more complex objects by any of their attribute: If you have a couple of Persons and you wanted to sort them by their lastName, shortest first, the code becomes:

Person personWithShortestName = persons.stream().min(
                                                 Comparator.comparing(
                                                 person -> person.lastName.length()))
                                                .get();