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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!");
}
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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

Cheat sheet

The for loop allows you to repeat code multiple times:

for element in range {
    code
}

Range expressions define how many times the loop runs:

  • start..end - runs from start to end-1 (excluding end)
  • start..=end - runs from start to end (including end)

Example loop from 0 to 4:

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

Example summing numbers from 1 to 100:

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

If you don't use the loop variable, prefix it with underscore to avoid warnings:

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

Try it yourself

fn main() {
    // Write code here
}
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