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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "pauline-galea@gmx.com" <pauline-galea@gmx.com>,
	Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : String variable composed of a repeat character
Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 14:30:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB4474F4743B0EE6BD7FFD9720F3569@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-ce60ca3c-3cc3-4651-af56-6648dc3d0498-1620460389334@3c-app-mailcom-bs15>

> 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))

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-08 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-08  7:53 String variable composed of a repeat character pauline-galea
2021-05-08 14:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-08 22:06   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-08 14:30 ` Drew Adams [this message]

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