I know that in python I can do something as follows.
for i in range(10, 0, -1):
print(i)
Which will output:
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
I'm very much new to julia and I know I can create normal loops as follows.
for i=1:10
println(i)
end
Intuitively, I tried something like as follows (since I thought it behaved similar to python's range([start], stop[, step]) function).
for i=10:1:-1
println(i)
end
Although it didn't fail, it didn't print anything either. What am I doing wrong?
Is there an intuitive way to loop backwards in julia?
Try this:
julia> for i=10:-1:1
println(i)
end
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
or this
julia> for i=reverse(1:10)
println(i)
end
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
As @phipsgabler noted you can also use:
julia> range(10, 1, step=-1)
10:-1:1
to get the same result again (note though that you have to use 1 as a second index).
From my practice range is usually more useful with with length keyword argument:
julia> range(10, 1, length=10)
10.0:-1.0:1.0
(notice that in this case you get a vector of Float64 not Int)