util.string.rep

local result = util.string.rep(
    input,
    count,
    separator = ""
)

Type	Name	Description
`string`	input	String to repeat
`int`	count	Number of times to repeat the string
`string`	separator	Separator to insert between repetitions

Type	Name	Description
`string`	result	String formed by repeating the input string specified number of times

Repeat a string multiple times

local result = util.string.rep("ab", 3)

core.engine.print("info", result) -- 'ababab'

Repeat a string with a separator

local result = util.string.rep("hi", 3, "-")

core.engine.print("info", result) -- 'hi-hi-hi'

Create a padding string

local padding = util.string.rep(" ", 10)

core.engine.print("info", "["..padding.."]") -- '[          ]'

Return empty string with zero repetitions

local result = util.string.rep("test", 0)

core.engine.print("info", result) -- ''

Return the original string with one repetition

local result = util.string.rep("test", 1)

core.engine.print("info", result) -- 'test'

Repeat using method syntax

local result = util.string.rep("*", 5)

core.engine.print("info", result) -- '*****'

Create a separator line

local separator = util.string.rep("=", 50)

core.engine.print("info", separator)

Create a visual progress bar

local bar = util.string.rep("█", 10)

core.engine.print("info", bar) -- '██████████'

Repeat words with a space separator

local result = util.string.rep("word", 4, " ")

core.engine.print("info", result) -- 'word word word word'

Create indentation with repeated spaces

local indent = util.string.rep("  ", 3)

core.engine.print("info", indent.."code") -- '      code'

Build an ASCII art pattern

local pattern = util.string.rep("* ", 5)

core.engine.print("info", pattern) -- '* * * * * '

Create a repeated table row

local cells = util.string.rep("| Cell ", 4)

core.engine.print("info", cells.."|") -- '| Cell | Cell | Cell | Cell |'

Generate a fixed-length test string

local data = util.string.rep("A", 100)

core.engine.print("info", #data) -- 100

Repeat a multi-character pattern

local pattern = util.string.rep("abc", 3)

core.engine.print("info", pattern) -- 'abcabcabc'

Repeat fields with a comma separator

local csv = util.string.rep("field", 5, ",")

core.engine.print("info", csv) -- 'field,field,field,field,field'