String variable composed of a repeat character

String variable composed of a repeat character

[pauline-galea]

How can a construct a string variable composed of repeating a character n times?

Re: String variable composed of a repeat character

[Tassilo Horn]

pauline-galea@gmx.com writes:

> 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):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun foo/repeat-string (n str)
  (with-temp-buffer
    (dotimes (_ n)
      (insert str))
    (buffer-string)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye,
Tassilo

RE: [External] : String variable composed of a repeat character

[Drew Adams]

> How can a construct a string variable composed
> of repeating a character n times?

;; Set MY-VAR to a string of 314 x's.
(setq my-var  (make-string 314 ?x))

Re: String variable composed of a repeat character

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

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...

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