Find Shortest element in Array

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I have a Array

string[] names = { "Jim Rand", "Barry Williams", "Nicole Dyne", "Peter Levitt", "Jane Jones", "Cathy Hortings"};

Is there any way to find which is the shortest(Length wise) element in this array and then store rest of elements in a different array.

Thanks, Ani

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