Count number of repeats in Swift

Question

I want to know how am I supposed to count the number of time a loop has repeated itself? More specifically how do I extract and output the number of repeats?

var x = 20
while x < 100 {
x += 10
}

The loop has executed 8 times in order to get x == 100. Is there a way to extract the number '8' so it can be used somewhere else (eg to make it a variable elsewhere)?

Answer 1

You said it yourself: you want to count. So count!

var x = 20
var numtimes = 0
while x < 100 {
    x += 10
    numtimes += 1 // count!
}
numtimes // 8