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Ruby Ruby Loops Ruby Loops The Ruby Loop

Posted by Karthikeyan s
Karthikeyan s
Courses Plus Student 2,444 Points

ruby looping

please help me to solve this

loop.rb 
def repeat(string, times)

 counter = 0
  if times <= counter
    loop do
      break
    end
    else
      puts string
            counter += 1
  end
end
 fail = "times must be 1 or more"
  repeat(fail, 2)

  #def repeat(string, times)
    #counter = 0
#  loop do 
#   if times == counter
#           loop do
#               break
#           end
#       else
#           puts string
#           counter += 1
#       end
#   end
#end
#fail = "times must be 1 or more" 
#repeat(fail, 3)

1 Answer

Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points
Ari Misha
Ari Misha
19,323 Points

Hiya Karthikeyan! The challenge wants ya to print "string" variable and increment the counter everytime you print the "string" that "repeat" function is recievin'. And when your counter reaches the "times" variable, the loop should break out. Here is the code for your reference:

def repeat(string, times)
  fail "times must be 1 or more" if times < 1
  counter = 0
  loop do
    # YOUR CODE HERE
    puts "#{string}"
    counter += 1
    if counter == times
      break
    end
  end
end
Karthikeyan s
Karthikeyan s
Courses Plus Student 2,444 Points

Thanks, Ari Misha.