Repeat Character N Times

Question

In Perl I can repeat a character multiple times using the syntax:

$a = "a" x 10; // results in "aaaaaaaaaa"

Is there a simple way to accomplish this in Javascript? I can obviously use a function, but I was wondering if there was any built in approach, or some other clever technique.

Thanks

Answer 1

Array(11).join("a")

(Note that an array of length 11 gets you only 10 "a"s, since Array.join puts the argument between the array elements.)

Answer 2

// Same idea, convenient if you repeat yourself a lot:

String.prototype.repeat= function(n){
    n= n || 1;
    return Array(n+1).join(this);
}

alert('Are we there yet?\nNo.\n'.repeat(10))