get last record from list in freemarker

Question

    <select name="showYears">
            <#list payrollYears as year> 
                <option value="${year.year}">${year.yeardesc}</option>
            </#list>        
    </select>

i am getting payrollyears list from my controller and i am iterating the list in freemarker and adding value to select box i want my last value of list should be selected value in last how can i do that

Answer 1

You could do something like

<#list payrollYears as year> 
      <option value="${year.year}" <#if !(year_has_next)>selected</#if> >${year.yeardesc}</option>
</#list>