local exampleTable = {"stringitem1", "stringitem22", "stringitem333", "The Longest String Of Text", "abcde"}
function getLongestString(strTable)
local str = strTable[1]
for i=1,#strTable do
if string.len(strTable[i]) > string.len(str) then
str = strTable[i]
end
end
return str
end
print(getLongestString(exampleTable)) --result : The Longest String Of Text
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