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This is a very basic question: is there a simple way to just duplicate
a string? Say I want to have a string with 10 "a"s or duplicate 3 times
'FOO' in the same string. There must be a better way than creating an
array then 'join'ing it...

Thanks!

B.

On 17 Jun 2005 02:13:55 -0700, wrote:

> This is a very basic question: is there a simple way to just duplicate
> a string? Say I want to have a string with 10 "a"s or duplicate 3 times
> 'FOO' in the same string. There must be a better way than creating an
> array then 'join'ing it...
>
perldoc perlop

print "test" x 42;

perldoc is your friend.

Mark

$number_of_times=10; # whatever number of times you want the stuff to
be repeated

$string= "FOO" x $number_of_times;

print " $string";