The STRING$ function returns a STRING consisting of a single character repeated a number of times.
Syntax
result$ = STRING$(count&, {character$ ASCIIcode%} )
Description
- count& is the number of times the character specified by character is repeated.
- Character is a literal string character, a string variable or an ASCII code number.
- If count& is negative, an ERROR Codes error will occur. The count can be zero.
- If character is a STRING value and its length is zero, an ERROR Codes error will occur.
- If more than one string character value is used, the first character will be repeated.
- A STRING statement can be added to a string value with the + concatenation operator.
- The function result can also be used to GET and PUT a number of bytes as zero characters: bytes$ = STRING(numbytes, 0)
Differences between QB64 and QB 4.5:
- QB64 can use LONG values for a count up to 2,147,483,647 while QB 4.5 could only use INTEGER values up to 32,767.
Example(s)
Printing 40 asterisks across the screen using an ASCII character code instead of CHR$(42).
PRINT STRING$(40, 42)
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Using a STRING to specify the repeated character.
text$ = "B" + STRING$(40, "A") + "D"
PRINT text$
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD