Working with list expressions

Cypher provides native support for lists. This means that not only are they treated as first-class entities, such as integers or strings, but all the functions that can create, manipulate, or process the lists are built into Cypher. Let us look at the following functions, all of which are available to process lists:

• range
• head
• tail
• last
• size
• reverse
• reduce

As well as these functions, we can also use list comprehensions. First, we will take a look at the preceding functions, and then we will explore list comprehensions in greater depth.

Let us look at the range function.

Working with the range function

The range function provides a way to create a list with numbers. It takes a start value and an end value with an optional step parameter and returns a list of all integer values bound by start and end. The syntax of the range function is as follows:

range(start, end [, step])

The step value is optional...