repeating string

[Peter M. Brigham]

Without using Regex, you can do this:

function makeString tChar, n
   -- returns a string of n characters (tChar)
   -- no repeat loop!
   put cr into line n of m
   replace cr with tChar in m
   return m
end makeString

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Alex Tweedly 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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