Write a method shortest_string which takes as its input an Array of Strings and returns the shortest String in the Array. For example: # 'cat' is 3 characters long shortest_string(['cat', 'zzzzzzz', 'apples']) # => "cat" # '' is 0 characters long, but it's the only string shortest_string(['']) # => '' shortest_string([]) # => nil If the input Ar…

Find the shortest string in an array

# shortest_string is a method that takes an array of strings as its input
# and returns the shortest string
#
# +array+ is an array of strings
# shortest_string(array) should return the shortest string in +array+
#
# If +array+ is empty the method should return nil
def shortest_string(array)
  shortest = nil
  array.each do |x|
    if shortest.nil? || shortest.length > x.length 
      shortest = x
    end
  end
  
  shortest
end