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iOS Swift Collections and Control Flow Control Flow With Loops Working With Loops

Alahjah Green
Alahjah Green
791 Points
Posted by Alahjah Green
Alahjah Green
791 Points

Need Some Help with this question. Please Help

Having a hard time getting pass this question

loops.swift 
let numbers = [2,8,1,16,4,3,9]
var sum = 0
var counter = 0

// Enter your code below


while counter < numbers.count{

        counter += 1

            sum += numbers[counter]

}

1 Answer

Heidi Puk Hermann
Heidi Puk Hermann
33,366 Points
Heidi Puk Hermann
Heidi Puk Hermann
33,366 Points

Hi,

your issue is that you increment the counter before adding up the sum. This will return a sum, where the first value in number has been excluded.

All you should do is move the increment of the counter down as the last line in the loop, then your code works.