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str_repeat

(PHP4 >= 4.0b4)

str_repeat -- Repeat a string

Description

string str_repeat (string input, int multiplier)

Returns input_str repeated multiplier times. multiplier has to be greater than 0.

Example 1. Str_repeat() example


echo str_repeat ("-=", 10);

This will output "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=".

Note: This function was added in PHP 4.0.


User Contributed Notes: str_repeat

dcac@usa.net
07-May-2000 08:07
<pre>function str_repeat($input, $mult)
{
$ret = "";
while ($mult > 0) {
$ret .= $input;
$mult --;
}
return $ret;
}
</pre>
should do the same thing




sshock@byu.edu
17-May-2000 12:08
I use it all the time in other programming languages. Like for instance, what if you wanted to output a bunch of lines to a file centered like this
These
will show up
really
nice
in here

You had to output a bunch of spaces on each line depending on the length of the line, so you could use this
fwrite($fp, str_repeat(" ", strlen($str)/2) . $str)
or something like that.........(p.s. yes I have lots of time on my hands....)

hahaha@yeahright.com
17-May-2000 07:06
It's mainly useful for formatting.

Things Like:

<pre>
apples: 1
pears: 2
oranges: 3
<pre>

robert@webmotion.com
28-Jun-2000 04:46
I use it for displaying data in arrays in a readable
format with indentation for nested data. ie.

function recurseDisplay( $data, $depth = 0 )
{
if( !is_array( $data ) )
return;

for( $i = 0; $i < count( $data ); $i++ )
{
echo "\n"
.str_repeat( ' ', $depth * 4 )
.$data[$i];
recurseDisplay( $data[$i], $depth + 1 );
}
}

Note: the above code is an example I didn't
bother to test it.

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