Can't understand simple while loop example

Hello,

I'm confused about why the following prints "Still alive!" only once. (This is from an example in the book
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020.) If I do "Still alive!" + playerLives, it prints multiple times. Can anyone tell me why is this so? Thanks.




using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class ch4Script4 : MonoBehaviour
{

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
int playerLives = 3;

while (playerLives > 0)
{
Debug.Log("Still alive!");
playerLives--;
}



}
}

 

Most likely you simply have the "Collapse" option toggled on your console window:

That option will collapse identical log messages into a single line with the number of copies shown at the right.

 

Oh my goodness. You are exactly correct. Thank you so much! I have been puzzling over that for hours! (It's pretty embarrassing.)