Is there a way to get the index of each item in a list being passed to JSTL c:forEach

Question

If I use the JSTL forEach loop to display a list of all returned items from my controller, Is there a way to output an index number for each item that is returned in the list?

<c:forEach var="item" items="#{Controller.allItems}" >

    <tr><td>{index number here???} : #{item.name}</td></tr>    
</c:forEach>

Possible duplicate of [Representation of a simple for loop in JSTL/EL](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11698993/representation-of-a-simple-for-loop-in-jstl-el) — BalusC, Dec 01 '15 at 15:53

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '15 at 15:40

That's what the attribute varStatus is for:

<c:forEach var="item" items="#{Controller.allItems}" varStatus="status" >
     <tr><td>${status.index} : #{item.name}</td></tr>    
</c:forEach>

VarStatus contains many other Attributes as well:

begin
end
index
step
even
odd
first
last

Is there a way to get the index of each item in a list being passed to JSTL c:forEach

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