sfsmisc (version 1.1-5)

repChar: Make Simple String from Repeating a Character, e.g. Blank String

Description

Simple constructors of a constant character string from one character, notably a “blank” string of given string length.

M.M. is now ‘mentally deprecating’ bl.string in favor of using repChar() in all cases.

Usage

repChar(char, no)
bl.string(no)

Arguments

char

single character (or arbitrary string).

no

non-negative integer.

Value

One string, i.e., character(1)), for bl.string a blank string, fulfilling n == nchar(bl.string(n)).

See Also

paste, character, nchar.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
r <- sapply(0:8, function(n) ccat(repChar(" ",n), n))
cbind(r)

repChar("-", 4)
repChar("_", 6)
## it may make sense to a string of more than one character:
repChar("-=- ", 6)

## show the very simple function definitions:
repChar
bl.string
# }