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Start your free trialPatrick Shushereba
10,911 PointsRuby Loops
I'm not sure what's wrong with my code. I tried to add the value of number to the array, and I incremented the number variable. I tried to set up an "if" statement so that when the number is greater than 3 the loop breaks. Can someone give me some insight?
numbers = []
number = 0
loop do
numbers.push[number]
number += 1
if number > 3
break
end
end
# write your loop here
1 Answer
Sage Elliott
30,003 PointsHello, Patrick! You're very close but there are just few things you need to change.
When pushing you'll need to surround the "number" with parentheses not brackets.
The "s" is missing when trying to evaluate the array. Instead you're looking at the number variable.
Call the length method on the array to receive the amount of items
lastly array indexes start at 0 so you actually would use 2 for the comparison in the if statement. 0 = 1, 1 = 2, and 2, = 3.
You can look below for reference, I hope that helps you!
numbers = []
number = 0
# write your loop here
loop do
numbers.push(number)
number += 1
if numbers.length > 2
break
end
end