"If the numbers array has more than 3 items" Issue

Question

The question ask to break a loop when the array numbers has more than 3 items. BUT the quiz when checking checks to see if it has exactly 3 items when it breaks.

Here is a code you can paste in the quiz to show its not working properly:

numbers = []

number = 0

# write your loop here
puts "If the numbers array has more than 3 items, use the break keyword to exit the loop"
loop do
  numbers.push(number)
  number += 1

  #If MORE than 3
  if numbers.length > 3 #change to 2 to pass quiz
    puts "I have: #{numbers.length} items, which is more than 3"
    puts "Here is my array: #{numbers.inspect}\n This is more than 3 items, which would be 4 or more."
    puts "This should pass the quiz parameters"
    break
  elsif numbers.length == 3
puts ("I have: #{numbers.count} items, exactly 3 not more than 3")
  else
puts ("I have: #{numbers.length} items, not more than 3")
  end
end

I have submitted a ticket last week and wanted to check up. Since its not fix quite yet I wanna make sure people can find a answer to their problem. This error can be confusing during your learning process, but its an honest mistake it seems.

Answer 1 · 2015-08-04T02:45:10Z

August 4, 2015 2:45am

David,

Consider this:

numbers = []

number = 0

loop do
  number += 1
  numbers << number
  break if numbers.length >= 3
end

Because the break doesn't happen until after you've already added the number to the array it's probably best to check if it is greater than or equal to 3... since you could be adding the third item to the array, which wouldn't be greater until it loops again and than at that point you'd have four items. If that makes sense.

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