[Templates] loop.first, loop.last

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Birgit" == Birgit Kellner <birgit.kellner@univie.ac.at> writes:

Birgit> Hi,
Birgit> I'm looping through an array of hashes with "foreach" and have problems using
Birgit> "loop.last":

Birgit> <p>
Birgit> <% foreach record in record_list %>
Birgit> <% record_lastname>, <% record.firstname %><% if not loop.last%>; <% end %>
Birgit> <% end %>:
Birgit> </p>

Birgit> However, the Template module throws an error:
Birgit> file error - parse error - pub_author.tmpl line 3: unexpected token (LAST) [%
Birgit> if not loop.last %].

Birgit> The same error is thrown by "unless loop.last".

Birgit> Can someone please explain this to me?

Unless you've done something other than just change your delimiters
away from [% %] to <% %>, the keywords are also (mostly) case-sensitive.
So you want things like:

<% FOREACH record IN record_list %>

etc.

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