A variable can be returned within a while loop by declaring the variable outside the loop and modifying it within the loop until the desired value is reached. Once the desired value is reached, the value can be returned outside the loop.
Here's an example:
def find_number(numbers, target):
found = False
i = 0
while i < len(numbers) and not found:
if numbers[i] == target:
found = True
else:
i += 1
if found:
return i
else:
return -1
In this code, the find_number
function takes in a list of numbers
and a target
value. The variable found
is initialized to False
and i
is set to 0.
The while
loop will run as long as i
is less than the length of numbers
and the found
variable is still False
. Within the loop, we check if the current element in the list (numbers[i]
) is equal to the target
. If it is, we set found
to True
. If it's not, we increment i
by 1.
Once the loop has completed, we check if found
is True
. If it is, then we return the value of i
(which represents the index where the target
was found). If found
is still False
, then we return -1
to indicate that the target
was not found in the list.
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Asked: 2021-11-23 11:00:00 +0000
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Last updated: Dec 28 '21
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