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In Enthuware, it is mentioned that for looping over collections, a loop status object might be used in the tag body. How do we use the loop status object in the tag body?

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Which tags are you talking about ? JSTL's iteration tags ? (c:forEach, c:forTokens)
 
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Hi,
I am talking about c:forEach tags.

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How do we use the loop status object in the tag body?


There is a varStatus attribute in the c:forEach tag. It's type is javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core.LoopTagStatus. If you look at the LoopTagStatus API, you'll see that the following information is available : begin, count, current, end, index, step.
For example, the following will print the iteration count next to an album title :
 
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Hi Verre,

Thanks.
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