ListRest

Description

Gets a list, without its first element.

Returns

A copy of list, without the first element. If list has one element, returns an empty list.

Function syntax

ListRest(list [, delimiters, includeEmptyValues ])

Parameters

Parameter	Description
includeEmptyValues	Optional. Set to yes to include empty values.
list	A list or a variable that contains one.
delimiters	A string or a variable that contains one. Characters that separate list elements. The default value is comma. If this parameter contains more than one character, ColdFusion processes each occurrence of each character as a delimiter.

Usage

If the list begins with one or more empty entries, this function drops them, as well as the first element. ColdFusion ignores empty list elements; thus, the list "a,b,c,,,d" has four elements.

Example

<h3>ListFirst, ListLast, and ListRest Example</h3> 
<!--- Find a list of users who wrote messages ---> 
<cfquery name = "GetMessageUser" datasource = "cfdocexamples"> 
SELECT Username, Subject, Posted 
FROMMessages 
</cfquery> 

<cfset temp = ValueList(GetMessageUser.Username)> 
<p>Before editing the list, it is:&nbsp; 
<cfoutput>#ValueList(GetMessageUser.Username)#</cfoutput>. 
<p>(Users who posted more than once are listed more than once.) 
<p>The first user in the list is: 
<cfoutput>#ListFirst(temp)# </cfoutput> 
<p>The rest of the list is:&nbsp;<cfoutput>#ListRest(temp)#</cfoutput>. 
<p>(Users who posted more than once are listed more than once.) 
<p>The last user in the list is: <cfoutput>#ListLast(temp)#</cfoutput>