Long literals, with continuations
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
This task is about writing a computer program that has long literals (character literals that may require specifying the words/tokens on more than one (source) line, either with continuations or some other method, such as abutments or concatenations (or some other mechanisms).
The literal is to be in the form of a "list", a literal that contains many
words (tokens) separated by a blank (space), in this case (so as to have a
common list), the (English) names of the chemical elements of the periodic table.
The list is to be in (ascending) order of the (chemical) element's atomic number:
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium aluminum silicon ...
... up to the last known (named) chemical element (at this time).
Do not include any of the "unnamed" chemical element names such as:
ununennium unquadnilium triunhexium penthextrium penthexpentium septhexunium octenntrium ennennbium
To make computer programming languages comparable, the statement widths should be
restricted to less than 81 bytes (characters), or less
if a computer programming language has more restrictive limitations or standards.
Also mention what column the programming statements can start in if not in column one.
The list may have leading/embedded/trailing blanks during the
declaration (the actual program statements), this is allow the list to be
more readable. The "final" list shouldn't have any leading/trailing or superfluous
blanks (when stored in the program's "memory").
This list should be written with the idea in mind that the program will be updated, most likely someone other than the original author, as there will be newer (discovered) elements of the periodic table being added (possibly in the near future). These future updates should be one of the primary concerns in writing these programs and it should be "easy" for someone else to add chemical elements to the list (within the computer program).
Attention should be paid so as to not exceed the clause length of continued or specified statements, if there is such a restriction. If the limit is greater than (say) 4,000 bytes or so, it needn't be mentioned here.
- Task
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- Write a computer program (by whatever name) to contain a list of the known elements.
- The program should eventually contain a long literal of words (the elements).
- The literal should show how one could create a long list of blank-delineated words.
- The "final" (stored) list should only have a single blank between elements.
- Try to use the most idiomatic approach(es) in creating the final list.
- Use continuation if possible, and/or show alternatives (possibly using concatenation).
- Use a program comment to explain what the continuation character is if it isn't obvious.
- The program should contain a variable that has the date of the last update/revision.
- The program, when run, should display with verbiage:
- The last update/revision date (and should be unambiguous).
- The number of chemical elements in the list.
- The name of the highest (last) element name.
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- Metrics
- Counting
- Word frequency
- Letter frequency
- Jewels and stones
- I before E except after C
- Bioinformatics/base count
- Count occurrences of a substring
- Count how many vowels and consonants occur in a string
- Remove/replace
- XXXX redacted
- Conjugate a Latin verb
- Remove vowels from a string
- String interpolation (included)
- Strip block comments
- Strip comments from a string
- Strip a set of characters from a string
- Strip whitespace from a string -- top and tail
- Strip control codes and extended characters from a string
- Anagrams/Derangements/shuffling
- Word wheel
- ABC problem
- Sattolo cycle
- Knuth shuffle
- Ordered words
- Superpermutation minimisation
- Textonyms (using a phone text pad)
- Anagrams
- Anagrams/Deranged anagrams
- Permutations/Derangements
- Find/Search/Determine
- ABC words
- Odd words
- Word ladder
- Semordnilap
- Word search
- Wordiff (game)
- String matching
- Tea cup rim text
- Alternade words
- Changeable words
- State name puzzle
- String comparison
- Unique characters
- Unique characters in each string
- Extract file extension
- Levenshtein distance
- Palindrome detection
- Common list elements
- Longest common suffix
- Longest common prefix
- Compare a list of strings
- Longest common substring
- Find common directory path
- Words from neighbour ones
- Change e letters to i in words
- Non-continuous subsequences
- Longest common subsequence
- Longest palindromic substrings
- Longest increasing subsequence
- Words containing "the" substring
- Sum of the digits of n is substring of n
- Determine if a string is numeric
- Determine if a string is collapsible
- Determine if a string is squeezable
- Determine if a string has all unique characters
- Determine if a string has all the same characters
- Longest substrings without repeating characters
- Find words which contains all the vowels
- Find words which contains most consonants
- Find words which contains more than 3 vowels
- Find words which first and last three letters are equals
- Find words which odd letters are consonants and even letters are vowels or vice_versa
- Formatting
- Substring
- Rep-string
- Word wrap
- String case
- Align columns
- Literals/String
- Repeat a string
- Brace expansion
- Brace expansion using ranges
- Reverse a string
- Phrase reversals
- Comma quibbling
- Special characters
- String concatenation
- Substring/Top and tail
- Commatizing numbers
- Reverse words in a string
- Suffixation of decimal numbers
- Long literals, with continuations
- Numerical and alphabetical suffixes
- Abbreviations, easy
- Abbreviations, simple
- Abbreviations, automatic
- Song lyrics/poems/Mad Libs/phrases
- Mad Libs
- Magic 8-ball
- 99 Bottles of Beer
- The Name Game (a song)
- The Old lady swallowed a fly
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- Tokenize
- Text between
- Tokenize a string
- Word break problem
- Tokenize a string with escaping
- Split a character string based on change of character
- Sequences
AWK
<lang AWK>
- syntax: GAWK -f LONG_LITERALS_WITH_CONTINUATIONS.AWK
BEGIN {
ll_using_concatenation() ; ll_info() ll_using_continuation() ; ll_info() exit(0)
} function ll_info( arr,n,x) {
n = split(str,arr," ")
printf("version: %s\n",revised)
printf("number of elements: %d\n",n)
printf("last element: %s\n",arr[n])
x = 30
printf("first & last %d characters: %s & %s\n\n",x,substr(str,1,x),substr(str,length(str)-x))
} function ll_remove_multiple_spaces(s) {
- all element names were wrapped in one or more spaces for readability and ease of future editing
- they are removed here
gsub(/\n/," ",s) # AWK95 needs, GAWK & TAWK don't
while (s ~ / /) {
gsub(/ +/," ",s)
}
sub(/^ /,"",s)
sub(/ $/,"",s)
return(s)
} function ll_using_concatenation( s) { s=s" hydrogen helium lithium beryllium " s=s" boron carbon nitrogen oxygen " s=s" fluorine neon sodium magnesium " s=s" aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur " s=s" chlorine argon potassium calcium " s=s" scandium titanium vanadium chromium " s=s" manganese iron cobalt nickel " s=s" copper zinc gallium germanium " s=s" arsenic selenium bromine krypton " s=s" rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium " s=s" niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium " s=s" rhodium palladium silver cadmium " s=s" indium tin antimony tellurium " s=s" iodine xenon cesium barium " s=s" lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium " s=s" promethium samarium europium gadolinium " s=s" terbium dysprosium holmium erbium " s=s" thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium " s=s" tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium " s=s" iridium platinum gold mercury " s=s" thallium lead bismuth polonium " s=s" astatine radon francium radium " s=s" actinium thorium protactinium uranium " s=s" neptunium plutonium americium curium " s=s" berkelium californium einsteinium fermium " s=s" mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium " s=s" dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium " s=s" meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium " s=s" nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium " s=s" tennessine oganesson "
str = ll_remove_multiple_spaces(s) revised = "2020-06-30"
} function ll_using_continuation( s) {
- works with: AWK95, GAWK 3.1.4, GAWK 5, TAWK
s="\
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium \ boron carbon nitrogen oxygen \ fluorine neon sodium magnesium \ aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur \ chlorine argon potassium calcium \ scandium titanium vanadium chromium \ manganese iron cobalt nickel \ copper zinc gallium germanium \ arsenic selenium bromine krypton \ rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium \ niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium \ rhodium palladium silver cadmium \ indium tin antimony tellurium \ iodine xenon cesium barium \ lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium \ promethium samarium europium gadolinium \ terbium dysprosium holmium erbium \ thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium \ tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium \ iridium platinum gold mercury \ thallium lead bismuth polonium \ astatine radon francium radium \ actinium thorium protactinium uranium \ neptunium plutonium americium curium \ berkelium californium einsteinium fermium \ mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium \ dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium \ meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium \ nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium \ tennessine oganesson \
"
str = ll_remove_multiple_spaces(s) revised = "30JUN2020"
} </lang>
- Output:
version: 2020-06-30 number of elements: 118 last element: oganesson first & last 30 characters: hydrogen helium lithium beryll & ivermorium tennessine oganesson version: 30JUN2020 number of elements: 118 last element: oganesson first & last 30 characters: hydrogen helium lithium beryll & ivermorium tennessine oganesson
Factor
The qw vocabulary provides Perl-ish syntax for arrays of strings. For instance, the literal
qw{ a bc d }expands to
{ "a" "bc" "d" }during parse time. This is convenient to use when the strings that are stored contain no whitespace.
The convention in Factor is to limit lines to 64 characters wide if possible. This constraint is sometimes waived for large literals, but it was easy enough to accommodate here.
<lang factor>USING: formatting kernel qw sequences ;
qw{
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson
}
"2020-03-23" ! last revision date in YYYY-MM-DD format
"Last revision: %s\n" printf [ length ] [ last ] bi "Number of elements: %d\nLast element: %s\n" printf</lang>
- Output:
Last revision: 2020-03-23 Number of elements: 118 Last element: oganesson
Free Pascal
The {$longStrings on} compiler directive enables the ANSI string data type. ANSI strings are pointers to sequences of characters. The data type includes a reference count and a (4-Byte long) length field. <lang pascal> program longStringLiteralDemo(output);
{$mode objFPC} {$longStrings on}
uses // for `format` sysUtils, // for `wordCount` and `extractWord` strUtils;
const elementString = 'hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxy' + 'gen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chl' + 'orine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganes' + 'e iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromin' + 'e krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum techneti' + 'um ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony telluriu' + 'm iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium prome' + 'thium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thuli' + 'um ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium pla' + 'tinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium ' + 'radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium' + ' curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium law' + 'rencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmst' + 'adtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium te' + 'nnessine oganesson'; elementRevision = '2020‑11‑11';
resourcestring revisionNotice = 'Last update: %0:s';
begin writeLn(format(revisionNotice, [elementRevision])); writeLn(wordCount(elementString, stdWordDelims)); writeLn(extractWord(wordCount(elementString, stdWordDelims), elementString, stdWordDelims)); end. </lang>
- Output:
Last update: 2020‑11‑11 118 oganesson
Go
<lang go>package main
import (
"fmt" "regexp" "strings"
)
// Uses a 'raw string literal' which is a character sequence enclosed in back quotes. // Within the quotes any character (including new line) may appear except // back quotes themselves. var elements = `
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson
`
func main() {
lastRevDate := "March 24th, 2020"
re := regexp.MustCompile(`\s+`) // split on one or more whitespace characters
els := re.Split(strings.TrimSpace(elements), -1)
numEls := len(els)
// Recombine as a single string with elements separated by a single space.
elements2 := strings.Join(els, " ")
// Required output.
fmt.Println("Last revision Date: ", lastRevDate)
fmt.Println("Number of elements: ", numEls)
// The compiler complains that 'elements2' is unused if we don't use
// something like this to get the last element rather than just els[numEls-1].
lix := strings.LastIndex(elements2, " ") // get index of last space
fmt.Println("Last element : ", elements2[lix+1:])
}</lang>
- Output:
Last revision Date: March 24th, 2020 Number of elements: 118 Last element : oganesson
J
Words (;:) is the sequential machine configured for lexical analysis of j. In many cases, certainly this one, j words look like English words. Words cannot have an inverse because it discards leading and trailing spaces, losing spacing information. The obverse unites the boxed words with a single space separation, the best it can do. Which is just right for this task.
NB. create a multi-line literal
elements =: CRLF -.~ noun define
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium
boron carbon nitrogen oxygen
fluorine neon sodium magnesium
aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur
chlorine argon potassium calcium
scandium titanium vanadium chromium
manganese iron cobalt nickel
copper zinc gallium germanium
arsenic selenium bromine krypton
rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium
niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium
rhodium palladium silver cadmium
indium tin antimony tellurium
iodine xenon cesium barium
lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium
promethium samarium europium gadolinium
terbium dysprosium holmium erbium
thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium
tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium
iridium platinum gold mercury
thallium lead bismuth polonium
astatine radon francium radium
actinium thorium protactinium uranium
neptunium plutonium americium curium
berkelium californium einsteinium fermium
mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium
dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium
meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium
nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium
tennessine oganesson
)
NB. same under words
space_separated_elements =: ]&.:;: elements
tally=: # ;: elements
last_element=: _1 {:: ;: elements
revision=: '2020-03-23'
'Last revision: ', revision
'Number of elements: ' , ": tally
'Last element: ', last_element
'first and last 30 characters:'
30 ;&({.&space_separated_elements) _30
Last revision: 2020-03-23
Number of elements: 118
Last element: oganesson
first and last 30 characters:
┌──────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│hydrogen helium lithium beryll│vermorium tennessine oganesson│
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
Julia
The task does not as of the current revision mention lower versus upper case, but the below is corrected per a request anyway. The task does ask to comment on which column code may start. The start column for code does not matter to Julia, or to most modern computer language compilers, other than in some cases (not string data) Python. <lang julia>using Dates
- FOR FUTURE EDITORS:
- Add to this list by adding more lines of text to this listing, placing the
- new words of text before the last """ below, with all entries separated by
- spaces.
const CHEMICAL_ELEMENTS = """
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorus sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson
"""
- END OF ABOVE LISTING--DO NOT ADD ELEMENTS BELOW THIS LINE
const EXCLUDED = split(strip( "ununennium unquadnilium triunhexium penthextrium penthexpentium " * " septhexunium octenntrium ennennbium"), r"\s+")
function process_chemical_element_list(s = CHEMICAL_ELEMENTS)
# remove leading and trailing whitespace s = strip(s) # return a list after splitting using whitespace between words as a separator return [element for element in split(s, r"\s+") if !(element in EXCLUDED)]
end
function report()
filedate = Dates.unix2datetime(mtime(@__FILE__))
element_list = process_chemical_element_list()
element_count = length(element_list)
last_element_in_list = element_list[end]
println("File last revised (formatted as dateTtime): ", filedate, " GMT")
println("Length of element list: ", element_count)
println("last element in list: ", last_element_in_list)
end
report()
</lang>
- Output:
File last revised (formatted as dateTtime): 2020-03-24T02:48:55.421 GMT Length of element list: 118 last element in list: oganesson
Lua
<lang lua>revised = "February 2, 2021" -- the long literal string is delimited by double square brackets: ... -- each word must be separated by at least one whitespace character -- additional whitespace may optionally be used to improve readability -- (starting column does not matter, clause length is more than adequate) longliteral = [[
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson
]] -- the task requires the "final list" as single-space-between string version -- (a more idiomatic overall approach would be to directly split into a table) finallist = longliteral:gsub("%s+"," ")
elements = {} -- longliteral could be used here DIRECTLY instead of using finallist: for name in finallist:gmatch("%w+") do elements[#elements+1]=name end print("revised date: " .. revised) print("# elements : " .. #elements) print("last element: " .. elements[#elements])
-- then, if still required, produce a single-space-between string version: --finallist = table.concat(elements," ")</lang>
- Output:
revised date: February 2, 2021 # elements : 118 last element: oganesson
Pascal
See #Free Pascal
The “Extended Pascal” standard (ISO 10206) defines the + string/character literal concatenation character. In “Unextended” Standard Pascal (ISO 7185) literals may not span multiple lines.
Phix
Back-ticks and triple-quotes permit multi-line strings. We first replace all/any cr/lf/tab characters with spaces, then split (by default on a single space), omitting empty elements. You could use spaced_elements = join(elements) to join them back up into a space-separated single string, if that's really what you want, and you could then, like Go, use rfind(' ',spaced_elements) to re-extract the last one. You could also, like Julia, use get_file_date(command_line()[2]) instead of the hand-written last_updated constant. Phix code is free-format, indent things however you like, there is no specific maximum line length. <lang Phix>constant last_updated = "March 24th, 2020", elements_text = `
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson
`, elements = split(substitute_all(elements_text,"\n\r\t"," "),no_empty:=true), fmt = """ Last revision: %s Number of elements: %d The last of which is: `%s` """ printf(1,fmt,{last_updated,length(elements),elements[$]})</lang>
- Output:
Last revision: March 24th, 2020 Number of elements: 118 The last of which is: `oganesson`
Python
<lang python>"""Long string literal. Requires Python 3.6+ for f-strings."""
revision = "October 13th 2020"
- String literal continuation. Notice the trailing space at the end of each
- line but the last, and the lack of commas. There is exactly one "blank"
- between each item in the list.
elements = (
"hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine " "neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon " "potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron " "cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine " "krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum " "technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin " "antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium " "praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium " "dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum " "tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead " "bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium " "protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium " "californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium " "rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium " "roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium " "tennessine oganesson"
)
def report():
"""Write a summary report to stdout.""" items = elements.split()
print(f"Last revision date: {revision}")
print(f"Number of elements: {len(items)}")
print(f"Last element : {items[-1]}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
report()
</lang>
- Output:
Last revision date: October 13th 2020 Number of elements: 118 Last element : oganesson
Raku
Incorrectly marked incorrect. Enforcing rules that exists only in somebodies head.
Not really sure I understand the point of this task. Seems to be load some list into memory and manipulate it somehow. Exceptionally boring to just read it in and then read it back out again. Perform some more interesting manipulations. Use < > quoting construct for literal string; unlimited (memory limited) characters, spaces don't matter, new-lines don't matter, blank lines don't matter.
<lang perl6>my %periodic; %periodic<revision-date> = Date.new(2020,3,23);
%periodic
= |< Hydrogen 1.0079 H Helium 4.0026 He Lithium 6.941 Li Beryllium 9.0122 Be Boron 10.811 B Carbon 12.0107 C Nitrogen 14.0067 N Oxygen 15.9994 O Fluorine 18.9984 F Neon 20.1797 Ne Sodium 22.9897 Na Magnesium 24.305 Mg Aluminum 26.9815 Al Silicon 28.0855 Si Phosphorus 30.9738 P Sulfur 32.065 S Chlorine 35.453 Cl Potassium 39.0983 K Argon 39.948 Ar Calcium 40.078 Ca Scandium 44.9559 Sc Titanium 47.867 Ti Vanadium 50.9415 V Chromium 51.9961 Cr Manganese 54.938 Mn Iron 55.845 Fe Nickel 58.6934 Ni Cobalt 58.9332 Co Copper 63.546 Cu Zinc 65.39 Zn Gallium 69.723 Ga Germanium 72.64 Ge Arsenic 74.9216 As Selenium 78.96 Se Bromine 79.904 Br Krypton 83.8 Kr Rubidium 85.4678 Rb Strontium 87.62 Sr Yttrium 88.9059 Y Zirconium 91.224 Zr Niobium 92.9064 Nb Molybdenum 95.94 Mo Technetium 98 Tc Ruthenium 101.07 Ru Rhodium 102.9055 Rh Palladium 106.42 Pd Silver 107.8682 Ag Cadmium 112.411 Cd Indium 114.818 In Tin 118.71 Sn Antimony 121.76 Sb Iodine 126.9045 I Tellurium 127.6 Te Xenon 131.293 Xe Cesium 132.9055 Cs Barium 137.327 Ba Lanthanum 138.9055 La Cerium 140.116 Ce Praseodymium 140.9077 Pr Neodymium 144.24 Nd Promethium 145 Pm Samarium 150.36 Sm Europium 151.964 Eu Gadolinium 157.25 Gd Terbium 158.9253 Tb Dysprosium 162.5 Dy Holmium 164.9303 Ho Erbium 167.259 Er Thulium 168.9342 Tm Ytterbium 173.04 Yb Lutetium 174.967 Lu Hafnium 178.49 Hf Tantalum 180.9479 Ta Tungsten 183.84 W Rhenium 186.207 Re Osmium 190.23 Os Iridium 192.217 Ir Platinum 195.078 Pt Gold 196.9665 Au Mercury 200.59 Hg Thallium 204.3833 Tl Lead 207.2 Pb Bismuth 208.9804 Bi Polonium 209 Po Astatine 210 At Radon 222 Rn Francium 223 Fr Radium 226 Ra Actinium 227 Ac Protactinium 231.0359 Pa Thorium 232.0381 Th Neptunium 237 Np Uranium 238.0289 U Americium 243 Am Plutonium 244 Pu Curium 247 Cm Berkelium 247 Bk Californium 251 Cf Einsteinium 252 Es Fermium 257 Fm Mendelevium 258 Md Nobelium 259 No Rutherfordium 261 Rf Lawrencium 262 Lr Dubnium 262 Db Bohrium 264 Bh Seaborgium 266 Sg Meitnerium 268 Mt Roentgenium 272 Rg Hassium 277 Hs Darmstadtium ??? Ds Copernicium ??? Cn Nihonium ??? Nh Flerovium ??? Fl Moscovium ??? Mc Livermorium ??? Lv Tennessine ??? Ts Oganesson ??? Og >.words.map: { (:name($^a), :weight($^b), :symbol($^c)).hash }; put 'Revision date: ', %periodic<revision-date>; put 'Last element by position (nominally by weight): ', %periodic- Output:
Revision date: 2020-03-23 Last element by position (nominally by weight): Oganesson Total number of elements: 118 Last element sorted by full name: Zirconium Longest element name: Rutherfordium Shortest element name: Tin Symbols for elements whose name starts with "P": P K Pd Pr Pm Pt Po Pa Pu Elements with molecular weight between 20 & 40: Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminum Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Potassium Argon SCRN: Raku
REXX
using continuations
This method will not work for some REXXes such as PC/REXX and Personal REXX as those two REXXes have a clause length limit of 1,024 bytes.
The space BIF is used to eliminate superfluous blanks from the list.
Most modern REXXes have no practical limit for a clause length. <lang rexx>/*REXX pgm illustrates how to code a list of words (named chemical elements */ /*──────────────────────── ordered by their atomic number) in a list format. */
$= 'hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon' ,
'nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium' , 'aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon' , 'potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium' , 'manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc' , 'gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton' , 'rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum', 'technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium' , 'indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon' , 'cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium' , 'promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium', 'holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium' , 'tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum' , 'gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium' , 'astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium' , 'protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium' , 'berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium' , 'lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium' , 'meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium' , 'moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson'
/* [↑] element list using continuation (commas).*/
updated= 'February 29th, 2020' /*date of the last revision of list.*/ say 'revision date of the list: ' updated /*show the date of the last update. */ elements= space($) /*elide excess blanks in the list*/
- = words(elements) /*the number of elements " " " */
say 'number of elements in the list: ' # /*show " " " " " " */ say 'the last element is: ' word($, #) /*stick a fork in it, we're all done*/</lang>
- output when using the default input:
revision date of the list: February 29th, 2020 number of elements in the list: 118 the last element is: oganesson
using concatenations
Note that at least one REXX has a maximum width of any one line, whether or not it is continued.
PC/REXX and Personal REXX have a limit is 250 characters (which includes comments).
Also note that REXX comments are not totally ignored by the parser, they are
kept around for tracing and
for the invocation of the sourceline BIF.
The REXX version uses concatenation (also called abutment) to build the list.
<lang rexx>/*REXX pgm illustrates how to code a list of words (named chemical elements */
/*──────────────────────── ordered by their atomic number) in a list format. */
$= 'hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon' $=$ 'nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium' $=$ 'aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon' $=$ 'potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium' $=$ 'manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc' $=$ 'gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton' $=$ 'rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum' $=$ 'technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium' $=$ 'indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon' $=$ 'cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium' $=$ 'promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium' $=$ 'holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium' $=$ 'tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum' $=$ 'gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium' $=$ 'astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium' $=$ 'protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium' $=$ 'berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium' $=$ 'lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium' $=$ 'meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium' $=$ 'moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson'
/* [↑] element list using abutments*/
update= '29Feb2020' /*date of the last revision of list.*/ say 'revision date of the list: ' update /*show the date of the last update. */ elements= space($) /*elide excess blanks in the list*/
- = words(elements) /*the number of elements " " " */
say 'number of elements in the list: ' # /*show " " " " " " */ say 'the last element is: ' word($, #) /*stick a fork in it, we're all done*/</lang>
- output when using the default input:
revision date of the list: 29Feb2020 number of elements in the list: 118 the last element is: oganesson
Wren
Wren doesn't have raw strings nor continuations and so we concatenate rows of strings instead.
The rows can begin in any column though, for a tidy display, we begin them all here in column 5. <lang ecmascript>import "/pattern" for Pattern
var elementStr =
"hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon " + "nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium " + "aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon " + "potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium " + "manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc " + "gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton " + "rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum " + "technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium " + "indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon " + "cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium " + "promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium " + "holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium " + "tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum " + "gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium " + "astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium " + "protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium " + "berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium " + "lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium " + "meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium " + "moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson"
var p = Pattern.new("+1/s") // matches 1 or more whitespace characters var elements = p.splitAll(elementStr) // get a list of elements elementStr = elements.join(" ") // recombine using a single space as separator var lastUpdate = "2020-08-03" System.print("Last updated : %(lastUpdate)") System.print("Number of elements : %(elements.count)") System.print("Last element : %(elements[-1])")</lang>
- Output:
Last updated : 2020-08-03 Number of elements : 118 Last element : oganesson
zkl
This solution uses a "doc string", a chunk of text that the parser eats verbatim. It starts and ends with #<<<. If started with #<<<", a leading " is added to the text. The text is then parsed as one [long] line.
The string split method creats a list of items split at white space (by default). To turn that into one string with one space between each item, use: elements.concat(" ") <lang zkl>revisionDate:="2020-03-23"; elements:=
- <<<"
hydrogen helium lithium beryllium boron carbon nitrogen oxygen fluorine neon sodium magnesium aluminum silicon phosphorous sulfur chlorine argon potassium calcium scandium titanium vanadium chromium manganese iron cobalt nickel copper zinc gallium germanium arsenic selenium bromine krypton rubidium strontium yttrium zirconium niobium molybdenum technetium ruthenium rhodium palladium silver cadmium indium tin antimony tellurium iodine xenon cesium barium lanthanum cerium praseodymium neodymium promethium samarium europium gadolinium terbium dysprosium holmium erbium thulium ytterbium lutetium hafnium tantalum tungsten rhenium osmium iridium platinum gold mercury thallium lead bismuth polonium astatine radon francium radium actinium thorium protactinium uranium neptunium plutonium americium curium berkelium californium einsteinium fermium mendelevium nobelium lawrencium rutherfordium dubnium seaborgium bohrium hassium meitnerium darmstadtium roentgenium copernicium nihonium flerovium moscovium livermorium tennessine oganesson" .split();
- <<<
println("Revision date: ",revisionDate); println(elements.len()," elements, the last being \"",elements[-1],"\"");</lang>
- Output:
Revision date: 2020-03-23 118 elements, the last being "oganesson"