How to limit the number of iterations done by setInterval

Question

I display video ads to my users. I don\'t host these ads by the way; I get them from another company.

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Answer 1

When you call setInterval, it returns you an interval ID that you can then use to stop it by calling clearInterval. As such, you'll want to count the iterations in a variable, and once they've reached a certain count, use clearInterval with the ID provided by setInterval.

var iterations = 0;
var interval = setInterval(foo, 10000);
function foo() {
    iterations++;
    if (iterations >= 5)
        clearInterval(interval);
}

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