Last
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (5)
Extract the last element of a list:
Extract the last row of a matrix:
Extract the last element of an association:
The head need not be List :
Return x if there are zero elements:
Generalizations & Extensions (1)
Last works on SparseArray objects:
Properties & Relations (1)
Last [expr] is equivalent to expr[[-1]]:
Tech Notes
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History
Introduced in 1988 (1.0) | Updated in 2014 (10.0) ▪ 2015 (10.3)
Text
Wolfram Research (1988), Last, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Last.html (updated 2015).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1988. "Last." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2015. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Last.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1988). Last. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Last.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_last, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Last}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Last.html}", note=[Accessed: 04-January-2026]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_last, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Last}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Last.html}, note=[Accessed: 04-January-2026]}