Menu
Coddy logo textTech

For Over Series

Part of the Fundamentals section of Coddy's Rust journey. Lesson 37 of 75.

Sometimes when programming it's necessary to perform same or almost the same operation a couple of times.

To prevent writing the same thing over and over again we can use Loops.

The for loop has the following syntax

for element in range {
    code
}

A range expression defines how many times the loop should run, typically written as start..end (which runs from start to end-1) or start..=end (which runs from start to end, including end).

For example, a loop from 0 to 5 (not including):

for i in 0..5 {
    println!("{}", i);
}

It will execute the print statement 5 times:

0
1
2
3
4

Loops have many use cases. For example, let's sum all the numbers from 1 to 100:

let mut sum_numbers = 0;
for i in 1..=100 {
    sum_numbers += i;
}
println!("{}", sum_numbers);

This will first loop through all numbers between 1 to 100 (including 100 because of ..= sign) and sum all of them, then it will print the sum_numbers variable

If for some reason you want to create a loop without using a variable (i), you should add underscore at the start of the name: _i. This will tell the compiler that it is okay that it is not used, and it will prevent the program to produce a warning:

for _i in 0..5 {
    println!("Hello!");
}
challenge icon

Challenge

Beginner

Write a program that prints "Hello Coddy: " and the i value from 3 to 27 (including, which means printing the numbers 3, 4, 5, ..., 26, 27, making it 27 - 3 + 1 = 25 times in total), do it using a for loop.

It will look like this:

Hello Coddy: 3
Hello Coddy: 4
...
Hello Coddy: 27

Try it yourself

fn main() {
    // Write code here
}
quiz iconTest yourself

This lesson includes a short quiz. Start the lesson to answer it and track your progress.

All lessons in Fundamentals

Practice on your own: Online Rust compiler