Way to ng-repeat defined number of times instead of repeating over array?

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

Answer 1

angular gives a very sweet function called slice.. using this you can achieve what you are looking for. e.g. ng-repeat="ab in abc.slice(startIndex,endIndex)"

this demo :http://jsfiddle.net/sahilosheal/LurcV/39/ will help you out and tell you how to use this "making life easy" function. :)

html:

<div class="div" ng-app >
    <div ng-controller="Main">
        <h2>sliced list(conditional NG-repeat)</h2>
        <ul ng-controller="ctrlParent">
            <li ng-repeat="ab in abc.slice(2,5)"><span>{{$index+1}} :: {{ab.name}} </span></li>
        </ul>
        <h2>unsliced list( no conditional NG-repeat)</h2>
         <ul ng-controller="ctrlParent">
            <li ng-repeat="ab in abc"><span>{{$index+1}} :: {{ab.name}} </span></li>
        </ul>

    </div>

CSS:

ul
{
list-style: none;
}
.div{
    padding:25px;
}
li{
    background:#d4d4d4;
    color:#052349;
}

ng-JS:

 function ctrlParent ($scope) {
    $scope.abc = [
     { "name": "What we do", url: "/Home/AboutUs" },
     { "name": "Photo Gallery", url: "/home/gallery" },
     { "name": "What we work", url: "/Home/AboutUs" },
     { "name": "Photo play", url: "/home/gallery" },
     { "name": "Where", url: "/Home/AboutUs" },
     { "name": "playground", url: "/home/gallery" },
     { "name": "What we score", url: "/Home/AboutUs" },
     { "name": "awesome", url: "/home/gallery" },
     { "name": "oscar", url: "/Home/AboutUs" },
     { "name": "american hustle", url: "/home/gallery" }
    ];
}
function Main($scope){
    $scope.items = [{sort: 1, name: 'First'}, 
                    {sort: 2, name: 'Second'}, 
                    {sort: 3, name: 'Third'}, 
                    {sort: 4, name:'Last'}];
    }

Answer 2

I needed a more dynamic solution to this - where I could increment the repeat.

HTML

<div ng-repeat="n in newUserCount">
<input type="text" value="" name="newuser{{n}}"/>
</div>

Duplicator Control

<span class="helper" ng-click="duplicateUser()">
Create another user with the same permissions
</span>

JS

 $scope.newUserCount = Array('1');
var primaryValue = 1;
$scope.duplicateUser = function()
{
    primaryValue++;
    $scope.newUserCount.push(primaryValue)
}

Answer 3

Update (9/25/2018)

Newer versions of AngularJS (>= 1.3.0) allow you to do this with only a variable (no function needed):

<li ng-repeat="x in [].constructor(number) track by $index">
    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span>
</li>

$scope.number = 5;

This was not possible at the time the question was first asked. Credit to @Nikhil Nambiar from his answer below for this update

---

Original (5/29/2013)

At the moment, ng-repeat only accepts a collection as a parameter, but you could do this:

<li ng-repeat="i in getNumber(number)">
    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span>
</li>

And somewhere in your controller:

$scope.number = 5;
$scope.getNumber = function(num) {
    return new Array(num);   
}

This would allow you to change $scope.number to any number as you please and still maintain the binding you're looking for.

EDIT (1/6/2014) -- Newer versions of AngularJS (>= 1.1.5) require track by $index:

<li ng-repeat="i in getNumber(number) track by $index">
    <span>{{ $index+1 }}</span>
</li>

Here is a fiddle with a couple of lists using the same getNumber function.

Answer 4

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 5

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

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

Answer 6

I am creating a reusable directive where the max number will come from another ng-repeat. So, this is an edit over the best voted answer.

Just change the code at controller to this -

$scope.getNumber = function(num) {
    var temp = [];
    for(var j = 0; j < num; j++){
        temp.push(j)
    }
    return temp; 
}

This will return a new array with specified number of iterations