Loops & Iterators
The 'While' Loop

Sometimes you want to repeat an action in Ruby while a certain condition is true, but you don't know how many times you'll have to repeat that action. A good example would be prompting a user for a certain type of input: if they insist on giving you the wrong thing, you may have to re-ask them several times before you get the kind of input you're looking for.

To accomplish this, we use something called a while loop. It checks to see if a certain condition is true, and while it is, the loop keeps running. As soon as the condition stops being true, the loop stops!


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