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8.237 REPEAT — Repeated string concatenation ¶

Synopsis:

RESULT = REPEAT(STRING, NCOPIES)

Description:

Concatenates NCOPIES copies of a string.

Class:

Transformational function

Arguments:

STRING	Shall be scalar and of type CHARACTER.
NCOPIES	Shall be scalar and of type INTEGER.

Return value:

A new scalar of type CHARACTER built up from NCOPIES copies of STRING.

Example:

program test_repeat
  write(*,*) repeat("x", 5)   ! "xxxxx"
end program

Standard:

Fortran 90 and later