JSTL Last Using varStatus

JSTL Last Using varStatus Example explains about finding JSTL last count using varStatus

Consider a JSP page, which contains an ArrayList and we need to find the last count of that particular ArrayList

For this by declaring variable varStatus="status" in JSTL forEach, you can access all the available methods of status object inside JSP page

You can use 'status.last' inside c:forEach tag, this will find the last element of that particular ArrayList

This JSTL 'status.last' is available for all the List / Collection implementations in java

you can see the below example demonstrating JSTL 'status.last'

Required Libraries

You need to download

  1. Tomcat 9
  2. JSTL 1.2

Following jar must be in classpath

  1. jstl-1.2.jar

JSTL Last Using varStatus

// JSTL varStatus Example

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.ArrayList"%>
<%
    ArrayList<String> numList = new ArrayList<String>();
    numList.add("1");
    numList.add("2");
    numList.add("3");
    request.setAttribute("numList", numList);
%>
<html>
<body>
    <c:forEach items="${numList}" var="item" varStatus="status">
        <c:if test="${status.last}">${item}</c:if>
    </c:forEach>
</body>
</html>
Output
3

The status object have following useful methods:

varStatus usefull methods











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