From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-04-22T04:29:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questoin of the day:A for loop that counts backwards?

On 4/21/06, MenDAKE <mendake_ddude@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do I get a for loop to count backwards?
>
> I have the loop...
>
> for i in 1 ... 8

1.upto(8) { |i| .. }

> ...but I want it to start at 8 and end at 1. This does NOT work:
>
> for i in 8 ... 1

8.downto(1) { |i| ... }