REPEAT — Repeated string concatenation

REPEAT()

Concatenates NCOPIES copies of a string.

Parameters

  • STRING – Shall be scalar and of type CHARACTER.

  • NCOPIES – Shall be scalar and of type INTEGER.

Returns

A new scalar of type CHARACTER built up from NCOPIES copies of STRING.

Standard:

Fortran 90 and later

Class:

Transformational function

Syntax:

RESULT = REPEAT(STRING, NCOPIES)

Example:

program test_repeat
  write(*,*) repeat("x", 5)   ! "xxxxx"
end program