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The rep( function assembles a text item by repeating a smaller text item over and over again.

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Parameters

This function has two parameters:

root – is the main character, word or phrase that you want to repeat over and over again. This must be a text item.

count – is the number of times you want the root to be repeated.

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Description

The rep( function simply appends a text value to itself over and over again.

rep("*",20) ☞ ********************
rep("hello ",3) ☞ hello hello hello 

The parameters are actually interchangeable, so you’ll get the same result if you reverse them.

rep(20,"*") ☞ ********************
rep(3,"hello ") ☞ hello hello hello 

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See Also

• + -- works differently depending on the type of operands used with it. If both operands are numeric, it does numerical addition. If either operand is text the + operator concatenates (joins together) the two operands.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	Updated	Carried over from Panorama 6.0, but allows the parameters to be reversed.