# REPEAT

Transformational Intrinsic Function (Generic): Concatenates several copies of a string.

result = REPEAT (string,ncopies)

string | (Input) Must be scalar and of type character.
ncopies | (Input) Must be scalar and of type integer. It must not be negative.

## 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.

## 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

Parent topic: Q to R

## See Also

SPREAD