anyone who can explain this for me, How many times is the while loop is going to execute this code?

Question

String word = "a";
while (word.length() < 10) {

word = "b" + word + "b";

}
System.out.println(word);

Answer 1

I believe it will go through it 5 times because after the first time word.length = 3, and then + 2 with each subsequent loop. After 5 times through the loop, word.length = 11 which is > 10.

Answer 2

The while loop should execute the word = "b" + word + "b"; code five times.
The string word has an initial length of 1, then after the loop checks that 1 < 10, it adds a "b" on either end of the string, updating its length to 3. This process continues three more times until word.length() is no longer < 10, and the string is then printed.