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Douglas Watts
5,464 PointsFor Loop, One Question
I understand the for loop and it's cool.....but i have one question: When i use this code->
for(var counter = 10;counter;counter = counter - 1) {
console.log("Hello World");
}
console.log("After");
when i run this i get a "Hello World" in the console with a little "10" next to it. But when i add the value counter to the console .log :
for(var counter = 10;counter;counter = counter - 1) {
console.log("Hello World", counter);
}
console.log("After");
it prints "Hello World" out ten times - i am wondering why??
2 Answers
Kenneth Camilleri
7,816 PointsAh. What's happening is that the log collapses output text that is exactly the same. The "10" next to the Hello World is the number of times the same text has been outputted consecutively. However, since in the second code the text is different every iteration, it doesn't group them into one console output line.
Douglas Watts
5,464 PointsNice, that makes since.....thanks alot!