User Guide
ListFirst 573
ListFirst
Description
Gets the first element of a list.
Returns
The first element of a list. If the list is empty, returns an empty string.
Category
List functions
Function syntax
ListFirst(list [, delimiters ])
See also
ListGetAt, ListLast, ListQualify
Parameters
Usage
ColdFusion ignores empty list elements; thus, the list "a,b,c,,,d" has four elements.
Example
<h3>ListFirst 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:
<cfoutput>#ValueList(GetMessageUser.Username)#</cfoutput>.
<p>(Users who posted more than once are listed more than once.)
<!--- Show the first user in the list --->
<p>The first user in the list is:
<cfoutput>#ListFirst(temp)#</cfoutput>
<p>The rest of the list is: <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 a list.
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.