Increasing integer during a loop

Question

I'm trying to increase a variable only during certain conditions

Enum.reduce(items, 0, fn item, acc  ->
  if item.condition do
    acc = acc+1
    Logger.info acc
  end
end)

But i get

** (ArithmeticError) bad argument in arithmetic expression

acc is not increasing as i did, question is what's the proper way of doing this — icra
– icra, Commented Jan 23, 2018 at 22:37

carpamon · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-23 23:25:00Z

6

The result returned by the function is used as the accumulator for the next iteration, recursively.

Logger.info returns :ok so you probably don't want that to be your last line.

You must also return acc if the condition doesn't meets.

Try with:

Enum.reduce(items, 0, fn item, acc  ->
  if item.condition, do: acc + 1, else: acc
end)

answered Jan 23, 2018 at 23:25

carpamon

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