How to get length of string from the smallest to the largest C#

Question

At the bottom is the line readbyline from txt file and the words are split by space between them ( " " ) how do I sort and return the length from the smallest to the largest?

This is what I have now - click on the link:

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The code

if (System.IO.File.Exists(textFile))
{
    using (System.IO.StreamReader file = new System.IO.StreamReader(textFile))
    {
        int counter = 0;
        string words; 
        string[] line;

        while ((words = file.ReadLine()) != null)
        {
            line = Regex.Split(words, " ");

            foreach (string line_1 in line)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(line_1 + " " + line_1.Length);
            }

            Console.WriteLine(" ");
            counter++;

            Console.WriteLine("Line[{1}]: {0}\n", words, counter);
        }

        file.Close();
        Console.WriteLine(" ");
        Console.WriteLine("File has [{0}] Lines.", counter);
    }
} 

Answer 1

Use Linq and you will get Min and max length, like below.

var min = words.Split(' ').Min(s => s.Length);
var max = words.Split(' ').Max(s => s.Length);

If you need all words by Sorted then use below.

var sortedList = words.Split(' ').Select(s=>new {Word=s,WordLength=s.Length }).OrderBy(o=>o.WordLength);