Question

How to find the length of the shortest word in a string with Go

Answer 1

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func shortestWordLength(text string) int {
    // Split on whitespace; Fields automatically removes empty entries
    words := strings.Fields(text)

    if len(words) == 0 {
        return 0
    }

    minLen := len(words[0])
    for _, w := range words {
        if len(w) < minLen {
            minLen = len(w)
        }
    }

    return minLen
}

func main() {
    input := "Find the shortest word length in this string"
    result := shortestWordLength(input)

    if result == 0 {
        fmt.Println("No words found.")
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Length of the shortest word:", result)
    }
}



/*
run:

Length of the shortest word: 2

*/

 

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