ListPrepend

Description

Inserts an element at the beginning of a list.

Returns

A copy of the list, with value inserted at the first position.

See also

ListAppend, ListInsertAt, ListSetAt

Parameters

Parameter	Description
list	A list or a variable that contains one.
value	An element or a list of elements.
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 ony uses the first
	character and ignores the others.

Usage

When prepending an element to a list, ColdFusion inserts a delimiter. If delimiters contains more than one delimiter character, ColdFusion uses the first delimiter in the string; if delimiters is omitted, ColdFusion uses a comma.

ColdFusion ignores empty list elements; thus, the list "a,b,c,,,d" has four elements.

If the delimiters parameter is the empty string (""), ColdFusion returns the contents of the value parameter.

To add an element to the beginning or end of a list, Macromedia recommends that you do so with code such as the following, rather than with the ListAppend or ListPrepend functions:

<cfset MyValue = "another element">
<cfif listLen(myList) is 0>
   <cfset myList = MyValue>
<cfelse>
   <cfset myList = myList & ", " & MyValue>
</cfif>

Example

<!--- This example shows ListPrepend --->
<cfquery name = "GetParkInfo" datasource = "cfsnippets">
   SELECT PARKNAME,CITY,STATE
   FROM PARKS
   WHERE PARKNAME LIKE `DE%'
</cfquery>
<cfset temp = ValueList(GetParkInfo.ParkName)>
<cfset first_element = ListFirst(temp)>
<cfoutput><p>The original list: #temp#</cfoutput>
<!--- now, insert an element at position 1--->
<cfset temp2 = ListPrepend(Temp, "my Inserted Value")>