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javascript find shortest word in string

const findShort = str => {
  // Convert string into an array of individual words:
  const arr = str.split(' ');
  // Sort array in ascending order:
  arr.sort((a, b) => a.length - b.length);
  // Return the first (shortest) element in the array:
  return arr[0];
};

JavaScript find the shortest word in a string

let str = 'Sleep is critical for good health. Not getting enough sleep can lead 
to diminished brain performance and, in the long term, greater risk of 
health conditions. These include heart disease, stroke, and diabetes';

function findWordsByLen(str, len) {
  const punctuationReg = /[.:;,?!"`~[]{}()<>/@#$%^&*=+_-]/g;
  const words = str
	.replaceAll(/s{2,}/g, ' ')
	.replaceAll(punctuationReg, '')
	.split(' ');

  let wordsByLen = words.reduce((acc, word) => {
    let wordLen = word.length;
    if (!acc.has(wordLen)) acc.set(wordLen, new Set());
    acc.get(wordLen).add(word);
    return acc;
  }, new Map());

  const maxLen = Math.max(...wordsByLen.keys());
  const minLen = Math.min(...wordsByLen.keys());

  switch(len) {
  case 'all':
    return wordsByLen;
  case 'max':
    return wordsByLen.get(maxLen);
  case 'min':
    return wordsByLen.get(minLen);
  }

  if (Number.isInteger(len) && wordsByLen.has(len)) return wordsByLen.get(len)
  else return `The string doesn't have any words with a length of ${len}`

}

findWordsByLen(str, 'max');     // => Set(1) { 'performance' }
findWordsByLen(str, 'min');     // => Set(4) { 'is', 'to', 'in', 'of' }
findWordsByLen(str, 8);         // => Set(2) { 'critical', 'diabetes' }


findWordsByLen(str, 'all');
/* OUTPUT:
Map(9) {
  5 => Set(5) { 'Sleep', 'sleep', 'brain', 'These', 'heart' },
  2 => Set(4) { 'is', 'to', 'in', 'of' },
  8 => Set(2) { 'critical', 'diabetes' },
  3 => Set(5) { 'for', 'Not', 'can', 'and', 'the' },
  4 => Set(5) { 'good', 'lead', 'long', 'term', 'risk' },
  6 => Set(3) { 'health', 'enough', 'stroke' },
  7 => Set(4) { 'getting', 'greater', 'include', 'disease' },
  10 => Set(2) { 'diminished', 'conditions' },
  11 => Set(1) { 'performance' }
}
*/