Vital.sandbox - string.rep

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

Type	Name	Description
`string`	input	String to be repeated
`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 = string.rep("ab", 3)

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

Repeat a single character to form a line

local line = string.rep("-", 40)

engine.print("info", line) --'----------------------------------------'

Repeat a string with a separator

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

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

Create a padding string

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

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

Return empty string with zero repetitions

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

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

Return the original string with one repetition

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

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

Repeat using method syntax

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

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

Create a separator line

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

engine.print("info", separator)

Build a pattern string

local dots = string.rep(".", 3)

engine.print("info", dots) --'...'

Create a visual progress bar

local bar = string.rep("█", 10)

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

Repeat words with a space separator

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

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

Create indentation with repeated spaces

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

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

Build an ASCII art pattern

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

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

Create a repeated table row

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

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

Generate a fixed-length test string

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

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

Repeat a multi-character pattern

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

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

Repeat fields with a comma separator

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

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

string.rep