Re: repeat characters in text

[Albannach]

in reply to repeat characters in text

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.

[blazar]

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]}";  # :-)