Transformational Intrinsic Function (Generic): Concatenates several copies of a string.
Syntax
Results:
The result is a scalar of type character and length ncopies x LEN(string). The kind parameter is the same as string. The value of the result is the concatenation of ncopies copies of string.
Compatibility
CONSOLE STANDARD GRAPHICS QUICKWIN GRAPHICS WINDOWS DLL LIB
See Also: SPREAD
Example
REPEAT ('S', 3) has the value SSS.
REPEAT ('ABC', 0) has the value of a zero-length string.
The following shows another example:
CHARACTER(6) str
str = REPEAT('HO', 3) ! returns HOHOHO