Index printing in JSP using JSTL

Question

I want to print the index of an collection, as weel as the data
right now I am doing
<c:forEach var="codebean" items="${PROJECT_LIST}" >
  <c:out value="${codebean.name}"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="rank" value="${index}"/>  <--Print the index here
</c:forEach>                         I know I can do this,
<c:forEach var="index" begin="${0}" end="${fn:length(PROJECT_LIST)-1}" >but I cannot combine both,
<c:forEach var="codebean" items="${PROJECT_LIST}" var="index" begin="${0}" end="${fn:length(PROJECT_LIST)-1}" >
<c:out value="${codebean.name}"/>
  <input type="hidden" name="rank" value="${index}"/>  <--Print the index here
</c:forEach>Help!!

Answer 1

use the attribute varStatus of the c:forEach
example
<%
int [] ts1 = new int[3];
          ts1[0] = 0;
          ts1[1] = 1;
          ts1[2] = 2;
pageContext.setAttribute("ts1", ts1);
%>
<c:forEach items="${ts1}" varStatus="status" var="foo">
          <c:out value="${foo} and count is ${status.count}" which is not zero based/></br>
</c:forEach>s