| Description: | Concatenates several copies of a string. | ||
| Class: | Transformational function; Generic | ||
| Arguments: | STRING | Must be scalar and of type character. | |
| NCOPIES | Must be scalar and of type integer. It must not be negative. | ||
| Results: | The result is a scalar of type character and length NCOPIES x LEN(STRING). The kind parameter is the same as STRING. The value of the result is the concatenation of NCOPIES copies of STRING. | ||
Examples
REPEAT ('S', 3) has the value SSS.
REPEAT ('ABC', 0) has the value of a zero-length string.