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

Posted by Rico Petrini
Rico Petrini
431 Points

This question will be so easy for anyone who is second course on ios development please help and thank you for your time

Help please

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 {
print(numbers[counter])
counter += 1
}

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hi Rico,

There's a couple of points here. First, your condition is the wrong way round. You're asking it to loop while the value in counter is greater than the length of the array. The start value of counter is zero, so the loop will never run. Switch that test to seeing if counter is less than the length of numbers.

Next, inside the loop, you've incremented counter; that's essential!! You've also accessed numbers by using numbers[counter] - that's correct too. But you don't want to print it; you want to add it into sum. So change your code to sum += numbers[counter] and I think that'll pass the challenge.

I hope that helps,

Steve.