From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder@...>
Date: 2006-04-22T05:50:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questoin of the day:A for loop that counts backwa

(1...8).reverse.each { |x| puts x }


On 4/21/06, Guest <ath-admin@vt.edu> wrote:
> MenDAKE wrote:
> > How do I get a for loop to count backwards?
> >
> > I have the loop...
> >
> > for i in 1 ... 8
> >
> > ...but I want it to start at 8 and end at 1. This does NOT work:
> >
> > for i in 8 ... 1
> >
> > Thanks for helping out a newbie.
>
> I like doing it this way... it makes more sense to me:
>
> x = 8
> while x > 0
>   x = x-1
>  puts x
> end
>
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