MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-CFML, Reference

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584 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
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.
Category
List functions
Function syntax
ListRest ( list [, delimiters ])
See also
ListFirst , ListGetAt , ListLast
Parameters
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 = "cfsnippets">
SELECT Username, Subject, Posted
FROM Messages
</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>
Parameter Description
list A list or a variable that contains one.
delimiters A string or a variable that contains one. Character(s) that separate list elements.
Default: comma.
If this parameter contains more than one character, ColdFusion processes each
occurrence of each character as a delimiter.