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last element in list: oganesson
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=={{header|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])</lang>
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<pre>revised date: February 2, 2021
# elements : 118
last element: oganesson</pre>
=={{header|Pascal}}==
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