repeating string

[Mike Kerner]

the BASIC RPT$ syntax is soooooooo not LC.  "of" might work, though.  I
also hate the * syntax.  Yes, I know what it means, but I'm a CS junkie.


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com> wrote:

> How about rpt(15,5) ? If you don't quote the "15", the numberformat would
> take effect, I guess.
>
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> put 30 "a" into goop, but that is a recipe for failure, and
> >> put 30 "a"'s into goop is almost unreadable
> >>
> >
> > If we're devising syntax, I think some other languages use * as in:
> >
> > put 30 * "a" into goop
> >
> > This still runs into problems because of LC's typeless variables:
> >
> > put 5 * 15 -- puts 75
> > put 5 * "15" -- puts 1515151515
> > put 15 into x
> > put 5 * 15 -- puts 75
> > put "15" into x
> > put 5 * 15 -- still puts 75, nor should it change
> >
> > Perhaps "of"?
> >
> > put 5 of 15 -- puts 1515151515
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