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Sharpen your Ruby: Iterators
I develop in Javascript, Python, PHP and Ruby. By far Ruby is my favorite programming language.
Together let start a journey and revisit our Ruby foundations.
Each post will include some theory but also exercise and solution.
If you have any questions/comments or your are new and need help, you can comment below or send me a message.
Classic Loop
In Ruby like any other programming language we can iterate a number of fix or variable times. Here are a classic infinite loop that will execute until the program crash.
loop do put 'Hello World'end
While loop
It is possible loop while a condition is meet.
number = 0while number < 100 puts number number += 1end# Will print numbers from 0 to 99
Loop until
It is possible loop until a condition is meet.
number = 0until number == 10 puts number number += 1end# Will print numbers from 0 to 9
Loop x number of times
(1..10).each do |i| puts iend# print numbers from 1 to 19
or also
10.times { puts "Hello World" }
Loop through each element
By far, the most use loop is the 'each' iteration
# Array of namesnames = ['Peter', 'Mike', 'John']# Iterate the names listnames.each do |name| puts nameend# or shorthand versionnames.each { |name| puts name }
Break and Continue
It is possible to stop the loop before the end. It is also possible to skip one iteration and go to the next one.
names.each do |name| next if name === 'Mike' puts nameend# Peter # John
The iteration will skip the puts statement if the name is equal to Mike
names.each do |name| break if name === 'Mike' puts nameend# Peter
The iteration will stop if the name is equal to Mike.
Exercise
Create a little program that:
- Create a loop with 10 iterations (from number 1 to 10)
- Each iteration will print only if the iteration number is even. Odd number will be skip.
Solution
10.times do |num| next if num.odd? puts "Number #{num}"end
Conclusion
That's it for today. The journey just started, stay tune for the next post very soon. (later today or tomorrow)
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