text string repeat in a Print statement?

[joemiller]

i'm searching for, but have not yet found [with Google and/or the Forum], a way to specify a character [or more generally a text string] to be repeated a specified number of times in a Print statement [eg] something like maybe Print(33("x")); to print a string of 33 x's. Help will be appreciated.

[sledge]

i'm searching for, but have not yet found [with Google and/or the Forum], a way to specify a character [or more generally a text string] to be repeated a specified number of times in a Print statement [eg] something like maybe Print(33("x")); to print a string of 33 x's. Help will be appreciated.

In 25 years, I've never seen anything like that.

You'll need to create your own function and return a string.

pseudo code:

function repeat_string ( string_to_repeat varchar2, repeat number )
return varchar2
is

rString varchar2(1000);

begin

for i in 1..repeat
loop
rString := rString || string_to_repeat;
end loop;

return rString;

end;

[sledge]

i'm searching for, but have not yet found [with Google and/or the Forum], a way to specify a character [or more generally a text string] to be repeated a specified number of times in a Print statement [eg] something like maybe Print(33("x")); to print a string of 33 x's. Help will be appreciated.

Well, here are some interesting ideas/hacks.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Repeat_a_string#C.23

[koganam]

i'm searching for, but have not yet found [with Google and/or the Forum], a way to specify a character [or more generally a text string] to be repeated a specified number of times in a Print statement [eg] something like maybe Print(33("x")); to print a string of 33 x's. Help will be appreciated.

Write a "for loop".

[joemiller]

thanks, that help a lot in that I will not waste any more time on it. I will just go ahead and type in a long string of whatever text I need whenever I need it.

[koganam]

In 25 years, I've never seen anything like that.

You'll need to create your own function and return a string.

pseudo code:

function repeat_string ( string_to_repeat varchar2, repeat number )
return varchar2
is

rString varchar2(1000);

begin

for i in 1..repeat
loop
rString := rString || string_to_repeat;
end loop;

return rString;

end;

Please stop frightening little boys and girls with Assembler pseudocode.

[sledge]

Please stop frightening little boys and girls with Assembler pseudocode.

Actually, it is Oracle PL/SQL

[koganam]

thanks, that help a lot in that I will not waste any more time on it. I will just go ahead and type in a long string of whatever text I need whenever I need it.

Actually, my initial response was somewhat misleading. I was just reading some of my very ooooold code, and realized that I used to do this quite often then. You can actually do it using the string constructor itself!

string s = [URL="http://www.google.com/search?q=new+msdn.microsoft.com"]new[/URL] String('X', 5);

will make s contain XXXXX

which you can then Print().

That should be plain enough, but I can always post a quick-and-dirty 2 lines if you want.

Better yet, here is a somewhat comprehensive reference for you.

ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...#Ctor3_Example

I need to polish up my Google-Fu.