A literal collection is created by using brackets and separating the elements in the collection with commas.

Query. 

RETURN [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] AS collection

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In our examples, we’ll use the range function. It gives you a collection containing all numbers between given start and end numbers.

To access individual elements in the collection, we use the square brackets again.

Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[3]

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You can also use negative numbers, to start from the end of the collection instead.

Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[-3]

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Finally, you can use ranges inside the brackets to return ranges of the collection.

Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[0..3]

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Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[0..-5]

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Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[-5..]

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Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[..4]

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Note: Out-of-bound slices are simply truncated, but out-of-bound single elements return null.

Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[15]

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Query. 

RETURN range(0,10)[5..15]

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List comprehension is a syntactic construct available in Cypher for creating a collection based on existing collections. It follows the form of the mathematical set-builder notation (set comprehension) instead of the use of map and filter functions.

Query. 

RETURN [x IN range(0,10) WHERE x % 2 = 0 | x^3] AS result

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Either the WHERE part, or the expression, can be omitted, if you only want to filter or map respectively.

Query. 

RETURN [x IN range(0,10) WHERE x % 2 = 0] AS result

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Query. 

RETURN [x IN range(0,10)| x^3] AS result

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From Cypher, you can also construct maps. In Java, they will be java.util.Map<String,Object>, through REST you will get JSON objects.

Query. 

RETURN { key : "Value", collectionKey: [{ inner: "Map1" }, { inner: "Map2" }]}

Try this query live. none RETURN { key : "Value", collectionKey: [{ inner: "Map1" }, { inner: "Map2" }]}