From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-02-03T17:09:30+09:00
Subject: Re: For Loop with Steps?

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:58 AM, botp <botpena@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Thescholar Thescholar
> <thescholar@hotmail.ca> wrote:
>> I am wondering how it's possible to iterate through a for loop statement
>> by 5 rather than by 1.
>
> try this,
>
>  for i in (0..100).step(5)
>    p i
>  end
>
>
> then compare this,
>
>  (0..100).step(5){|i| p i }

There is also Fixnum#step

irb(main):003:0> 0.step(100, 5) {|i| p i}
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
95
100
=> 0
irb(main):004:0>

Cheers

robert


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