REPEAT(STRING, NCOPIES)

Purpose

Concatenate several copies of a string.

Class

Transformational function

Argument type and attributes

STRING

must be scalar and of type character.

NCOPIES

must be scalar and of type integer. Its value must not be negative.

Result type and attributes

Character scalar with a length equal to NCOPIES * LENGTH(STRING), with the same kind type parameter as STRING.

Result value

The value of the result is the concatenation of NCOPIES copies of STRING.