Re: character repeat
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg108368] Re: character repeat
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:07:26 -0500 (EST)
On 3/14/10 at 5:12 AM, the.wright.email at gmail.com (davo) wrote: >In some languages "S" * n returns a string of n "S"s... >is there a built in to do this in Mathematica - I can't find it in >the docs.. There is no built in function to do this as far as I know. But it is a simple matter to create one. For example In[6]:= strTimes[x_String, n_Integer] := Nest[# <> x &, "", n] In[7]:= strTimes["S", 6] Out[7]= SSSSSS In[8]:= StringLength[%] Out[8]= 6