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Ruby Ruby Loops Ruby Loops The Ruby Loop

Faisal Husseini
Faisal Husseini
4,668 Points
Posted by Faisal Husseini
Faisal Husseini
4,668 Points

when it is printing hi 5 times it is saying it wrong

help this does not make sense

loop.rb 
def repeat(string, times)
  fail "times must be 1 or more" if times < 1
  counter = 0
  loop do
    # YOUR CODE HERE
    print "hi"
   counter += 1
    times = 5
    if counter == times
      break
    end 
  end
end

2 Answers

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,972 Points

You should be using the string and times values passed in to the method. This means inside the method

1) Print string. The checker will pass in a value of "hi" for string

2) Do not set a value for times. The checker will pass in a value of 5 for times.

Joe Sharp
Joe Sharp
19,791 Points
Joe Sharp
Joe Sharp
19,791 Points

In addition to Kris's answer. You may have been wondering why your method as currently written is returning:

hihihihihi

rather than:

hi
hi
hi
hi
hi

You have two options you could:

print "hi\n"

to print a newline but better would be to use puts:

puts "hi"