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Ruby

Lindsay Barrett
Lindsay Barrett
234 Points
Posted by Lindsay Barrett
Lindsay Barrett
234 Points

Ruby While Loop

Hi everyone.

In this block of of code, I don't understand how the print_hello function knows how many times to print "Hello" using "i".

I understand that the "number_of_time" variable takes in the "answer" variable, but i don't understand how a "<" sign knows how many times to print "Hello", as well as how incrementing makes a difference.

Here is the code:

def print_hello(number_of_times)
  i = 0
  while i < number_of_times
    puts "hello"
    i +=1
    end
end

answer = 0
while answer < 5
  print "How many time do you want to print Hello? Enter number greater than 4 to exit."
answer = gets.chomp.to_i
print_hello(answer)
end

1 Answer

Oscar Yuen
PLUS
Oscar Yuen
Courses Plus Student 4,759 Points
Oscar Yuen
Oscar Yuen
Courses Plus Student 4,759 Points

That is because i is 0 at the beginning and each time it prints out hello is incremented by one and stop when it reaches number_of_times. So the loop is being run for number_of_times