CFLOOP: LOOPING OVER A LIST OR FILE |
Description Looping over a list steps through elements contained in any of these entities: A variable A value that is returned from an expression A file
Syntax
    <cfloop
       index = "index_name"
       list = "list_items"
       delimiters = "item_delimiter">
       ...
    </cfloop>
See also cfabort, cfbreak, cfexecute, cfexit, cfif, cflocation, cfswitch, cfthrow, cftry; "cfloop and cfbreak" in Chapter 2, "Elements of CFML," in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide
Example This loop displays four names:
    <cfloop index = "ListElement"
       list = "John,Paul,George,Ringo">
          <cfoutput>#ListElement#</cfoutput><br>
    </cfloop>
You can put more than one character in the delimiters attribute, in any order. For example, this loop processes commas, colons, and slashes as list delimiters:
    <cfloop index = "ListElement"
       list = "John/Paul,George::Ringo"
       delimiters = ",:/">
          <cfoutput>#ListElement#</cfoutput><br>
    </cfloop>
ColdFusion skips the second and subsequent consecutive delimiters between list elements. Thus, in the example, the two colons between "George" and "Ringo" are processed as one delimiter. To loop over each line of a file, use the tag this way:
    <cfloop list="#theFile#"
       index="curLine"
       delimiters="#chr(10)##chr(13)#">
       ...
    </cfloop>

INDEX |
| Required
In a list loop, the variable to receive the next list element.

LIST |
| Required
A list, variable, or filename; contains a list.

DELIMITERS |
| Optional
Character(s) that separates items in list.