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Re: st: string question


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: string question
Date   Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:05:45 +0100

also

mata : st_local("fivefrogs", 5 * "frog")

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> . di _dup(5) "frog"
> frogfrogfrogfrogfrog
>
> . local fivefrogs : di _dup(5) "frog"
>
> . di "`fivefrogs'"
> frogfrogfrogfrogfrog
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I need to define macros with a few words that are repeated many times like:
>>
>> global macro a ..... b .....
>>
>> Is there any string function that allows to to repeat a word x times?
>
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