Re: create a string of <n> equal chars <c>

On 13 Jul 2010 15:01:35 GMT, Andreas Leitgeb
<avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :


it is part of the common11 tools for JDK 1.1+
http://mindprod.com/products1.html#COMMON11

The method is called StringTools.rep

 /**
     * Produce a String of a given repeating character.
     *
     * @param c the character to repeat
     * @param count the number of times to repeat
     *
     * @return String, e.g. rep('*',4) returns "****"
     * @noinspection WeakerAccess,SameParameterValue
     */
    public static String rep( char c, int count )
        {
        if ( c == ' ' && count <= SOMESPACES.length() )
            {
            return SOMESPACES.substring( 0, count );
            }
        char[] s = new char[count];
        for ( int i = 0; i < count; i++ )
            {
            s[ i ] = c;
            }
        return new String( s ).intern();
        }

   /**
     * used to efficiently generate Strings of spaces of varying
length
     */
    private static final String SOMESPACES = " ";