Way to ng-repeat defined number of times instead o

Question

Is there a way to ng-repeat a defined number of times instead of always having to iterate over an array?

For example, below I want the list item to show up 5 times assuming $scope.number equal to 5 in addition incrementing the number so each list item increments like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Desired result:

<ul>
   <li><span>1</span></li>
   <li><span>2</span></li>
   <li><span>3</span></li>
   <li><span>4</span></li>
   <li><span>5</span></li>
</ul>

Answer 1

This is only a slight variation on the accepted answer, but you don't really need to create a new function. Only to import 'Array' in the scope:

<div ng-app="myapp">
    <div ng-controller="ctrlParent">
        <ul>
            <li ng-repeat="i in counter(5) track by $index">
              <span>{{$index+1}}</span></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

var app = angular.module('myapp',[]);
app.controller('ctrlParent',function($scope){
    $scope.myNumber = 5;
    $scope.counter = Array;
});

See this fiddle for a live example.

Answer 2

This is really UGLY, but it works without a controller for either an integer or variable:

integer:

<span ng-repeat="_ in ((_ = []) && (_.length=33) && _) track by $index">{{$index}}</span>

variable:

<span ng-repeat="_ in ((_ = []) && (_.length=myVar) && _) track by $index">{{$index}}</span>

Answer 3

simple way:

    public defaultCompetences: Array<number> = [1, 2, 3];

in the component/controller and then:

    <div ng-repeat="i in $ctrl.defaultCompetences track by $index">

This code is from my typescript project but could be rearranged to pure javascript

Answer 4

A simpler approach would be (for an example of 5 times):

<div ng-repeat="x in [].constructor(5) track by $index">
       ...
</div>

Answer 5

I encountered the same problem and this is what I came out with:

(function () {
  angular
    .module('app')
    .directive('repeatTimes', repeatTimes);

  function repeatTimes ($window, $compile) {
    return { link: link };

    function link (scope, element, attrs) {
      var times    = scope.$eval(attrs.repeatTimes),
          template = element.clone().removeAttr('repeat-times');

      $window._(times).times(function (i) {
        var _scope = angular.extend(scope.$new(), { '$index': i });
        var html = $compile(template.clone())(_scope);

        html.insertBefore(element);
      });

      element.remove();
    }
  }
})();

... and the html:

<div repeat-times="4">{{ $index }}</div>

LIVE EXAMPLE

I used underscore's times function as we where already using it on the project, but you can easily replace that with native code.

Answer 6

Here is an example of how you could do this. Note that I was inspired by a comment in the ng-repeat docs: http://jsfiddle.net/digitalzebra/wnWY6/

Note the ng-repeat directive:

<div ng-app>
    <div ng-controller="TestCtrl">
        <div ng-repeat="a in range(5) track by $index">{{$index + 1}}</div>
    </div>
</div>

Here is the controller:

function TestCtrl($scope) {
    $scope.range = function(n) {
        return new Array(n);
    };
};