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Carolyn Buck
4,067 PointsThe repeat method should take a string, and print it a specified number of times. Use loop and break to complete the met
The repeat method should take a string, and print it a specified number of times. Use loop and break to complete the method. Be sure to do the following: After printing the value of string, add 1 to the counter variable. Use an if statement together with the break keyword to break out of the loop once counter is equal to times.
def repeat(string, times)
fail "times must be 1 or more" if times < 1
counter = 0
loop do
print "#{string}" * times
counter += 1
if counter == times
break
end
end
end
6 Answers
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 PointsHi Carolyn,
Each time through the loop you should only print the string 1 time. But you're multiplying by times and so you're getting too many.
Nickolas Fuentes
14,016 PointsThis is how I solved the objective:
def repeat(string, times)
fail "times must be 1 or more" if times < 1
counter = 0
loop do
print string
counter += 1
if counter == times
break
end
end
end
Otilia Tiru
1,405 Pointsdef repeat(string, times) fail "times must be 1 or more" if times < 1 counter = 0 loop do print "#{string}" counter += 1 if counter == times break end end end
Erin Claudio
Courses Plus Student 8,403 PointsI am still very lost on this challenge.
def repeat(string, times) fail "times must be 1 or more" if times < 1 counter = 0
^^The section above confuses me seeing as we have not worked with the keyword "fail" yet^^
loop do print #{string} counter += 1 break if counter == times end
^^The above is my recent effort, but I feel like I am just trying any code and not truely understanding this.
I received this response when running the last code Challenge Bummer: We expected repeat("hi", 5) to print "hi" 5 times, but instead we got ""!
Joseph Torres
860 PointsI think this challenge could have been explained better
yvesramos
12,816 PointsThanks, Nick you really helped me with this. I was doing, if counter == 5, instead of, if counter == times. Newbie mistake.