I took a guess as to using indexOf for the ArrayList.
Created Strings shortest and longest.
It seems like it should be working but was unsure why I only have one unresolved.
Thanks for looking.
package com.codegym.task.task07.task0712;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Scanner;
/*
Shortest or longest
*/
public class Solution {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
//write your code here
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
ArrayList<String> userStrings = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
String userString = scanner.nextLine();
userStrings.add(userString);
}
String shortestString = userStrings.get(0);
String longestString = userStrings.get(0);
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
if (userStrings.get(i).length() <= userStrings.get(i + 1).length()) {
if (userStrings.get(i).length() <= shortestString.length()) {
shortestString = userStrings.get(i);
}
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
if (userStrings.get(i).length() > userStrings.get(i + 1).length()) {
if (userStrings.get(i).length() > longestString.length()) {
longestString = userStrings.get(i);
}
}
}
if (userStrings.indexOf(longestString) < userStrings.indexOf(shortestString)) {
System.out.println(longestString);
}
if (userStrings.indexOf(shortestString) < userStrings.indexOf(longestString)) {
System.out.println(shortestString);
}
}
}