From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: String variable composed of a repeat character Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 00:06:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87v97sx4m4.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87y2cps3oy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11506"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tWOgmDGnyxVWqeuggz+eJcUifYQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 00:10:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfV9W-0002tR-Mg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 00:10:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48426 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfV9V-0004ak-OC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 18:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfV9B-0004aM-AD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 18:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:60012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfV9A-0004sC-0F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 May 2021 18:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfV97-0002PA-1C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 00:10:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129584 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote: >> How can a construct a string variable composed of repeating >> a character n times? > > One way to do it (which works for both repeating a character > or a string): > > (defun foo/repeat-string (n str) > (with-temp-buffer > (dotimes (_ n) > (insert str)) > (buffer-string))) Pretty, but there is an easier way and you know it :) (make-string 3 ?w) ; www But what don't you do to get char/string transparency... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal