Re^2: repeat characters in text

[blazar]

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You have the right idea, you just need a different operator - print 'a', '!' x 5; will do it. Though Perl doesn't care, I prefer not to use double quotes unless I expect interpolation to be taking place.

print "a@{['!' x 5]}";  # :-)