repeating string

[Mike Kerner]

nice.


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:

> On 05/02/2014 15:06, Mike Kerner wrote:
>
>> Alex's idea is also clever, but what if I am trying to repeat another
>> character, like "#"?
>>
>>
>>
> put replacetext( format("%30s", " "), " ", "x") into myVar
>
> (no promises for being the speediest solution - but still one line and no
> library involved).
> -- Alex.
>
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