How to create a string like "====================="

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:35 pm

Hello,

is there any function to create a string with a lot of copies of a specific character? For example:

copy("A", 5) --> "AAAAA"

Thank you!

bn · Post by bn » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:50 pm

Ale,

try

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repeat 5
  put "A" after tCollect
end repeat

tCollect is now ->"AAAAA"
regards
Bernd

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:53 pm

Thank you, but I'm already using:
repeat for x times

I don't know if a shorter (and faster!) function exists.

Thank you!

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:42 am

Hi ale870,

no there is no other way to do this!
But you can save some typing by simply writing:

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...
repeat 5
  put "x" after my_string_with_x
end repeat
...

Best

Klaus

Mark Smith · Post by **Mark Smith** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:55 am

The thing is to build up your collection of such functions in a library, so you only have to write them once.

This means that you need to generalise them:

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function stringRep pString, pNumReps
  put empty into tRepString
  repeat pNumReps
    put pString after tRepString
  end repeat
  return tRepString
end stringRep

Best,

Mark Smith