Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Nicest equivalent to counted "for" loop? Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 20:56:23 +0100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <36c7832c-aad6-4003-ae76-c392fbe591b7@googlegroups.com> <0df9807f-d5f3-4a27-bd98-d53eea83832f@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net QgbkXhmXXxaXaxqtj+v6MgKXgXbWRJDAdh+4igGklcE8fXBKU= Cancel-Lock: sha1:nzfTZ3Yc7blkXIXK1gzy2ZnsGzQ= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 In-Reply-To: <0df9807f-d5f3-4a27-bd98-d53eea83832f@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.ruby:7305 On 01.12.2016 23:01, sbrecher@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 1:58:24 PM UTC-8, brec wrote: >> Currently I've got... >> >> $Count = 192 # some arbitrary constant, or command line argument, or input; > 0 >> >> $i = $Count >> while (i -= 1) >= 0 >> # some stuff >> end >> >> ...In other languages I'd use a counted "for" loop. Is there something more elegant than the above? > > Kindly ignore the missing "$" in the conditional expression. $i.times do |x| end $i.downto 0 do |x| end Off by one errors included. ;-) Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/