From: Harry Kakueki <list.push@...>
Date: 2007-05-10T21:57:46+09:00
Subject: Re: loop questions

On 5/10/07, Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com> wrote:
>
> Which worked as expected.  But I had better use for a descending loop.
> In pascal it would be
>
> for i := 5 downto 1 do
>   writeln('%d', [i]);
>
> but I could not figure out how to do that in a for loop.  I looked
> through several books and could not find the answer.  Any tips?
>
> --
>
Is this what you want?

5.downto(1) do |x|
p x
end

OR

5.downto(1) {|x| p x}

Harry

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