How to get smallest element and key from int list

Questions & Answers
1

My list is declared as

private List<int> values = new List<int>{5, 2, 4, 10, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1};

How to get smallest element and key from this int list ?

2

Take a look at List.Min< T >() or other version of List.Min().

private List<string> alphabets = new List<string>{"5", "2", "3", ...};

//Get Min
string smallestString = alphabets.Min();

//index 
int index = alphabets.IndexOf( smallestString );