// // For loops also let you store the "index" of the iteration - a // number starting with 0 that counts up with each iteration: // // for (items) |item, index| { // // // Do something with item and index // // } // // You can name "item" and "index" anything you want. "i" is a popular // shortening of "index". The item name is often the singular form of // the items you're looping through. // const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() void { // Let's store the bits of binary number 1101 in // 'little-endian' order (least significant byte first): const bits = [_]u8{ 1, 0, 1, 1 }; var value: u32 = 0; // Now we'll convert the binary bits to a number value by adding // the value of the place as a power of two for each bit. // // See if you can figure out the missing piece: for (bits) |bit, i| { // Note that we convert the usize i to a u32 with // @intCast(), a builtin function just like @import(). // We'll learn about these properly in a later exercise. var place_value = std.math.pow(u32, 2, @intCast(u32, i)); value += place_value * bit; } std.debug.print("The value of bits '1101': {}.\n", .{value}); }