repeating string

[Mike Kerner]

Mark,
I must have screwed something up the first time, because I wound up with
31, even though I expected 30.  When I just tested it, it came out at 30.

Alex's idea is also clever, but what if I am trying to repeat another
character, like "#"?


I was trying to avoid the solution Craig suggested by using a built-in
construct, which made me think that we should have something like

put 30 "a" into goop, but that is a recipe for failure, and
put 30 "a"'s into goop is almost unreadable


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Into item 29 gives you a string of 29 chars, after 29 makes a string of 30
> chars, into item 30 gives a string of 30 chars.
>
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> On 2/5/2014 04:14, Mike Kerner wrote:
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>> <blink, blink, pregnant pause/>
>> That's clever.  It would be item 29, but that hardly matters.  What's even
>> more interesting about that is that
>> put space into word 29 of mySpaces
>>   will give me a string that's 1 character long.
>>
>>
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