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str_repeat — Repeat a string
string
The string to be repeated.
times
Number of time the
string
string should be
repeated.
times
has to be greater than or equal to 0.
If the
times
is set to 0, the function
will return an empty string.
Returns the repeated string.
Example #1 str_repeat() example
<?php
echo
str_repeat
(
"-="
,
10
);
?>
The above example will output:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Here is a simple one liner to repeat a string multiple times with a separator:<?php
implode($separator, array_fill(0, $multiplier, $imput));
?>
Example script:<?php
// How I lique to repeat a string using standard PHP functions$imput= 'bar';
$multiplier= 5;
$separator= ',';
print implode($separator, array_fill(0, $multiplier, $imput));
print"\n";
// Say, this comes in handy with count() on an array that we want to use in an
// SQL kery such as 'WHERE foo IN (...)'$args= array('1', '2', '3');
printimplode(',', array_fill(0, count($args), '?'));
print"\n";
?>
Example Output:
bar,bar,bar,bar,bar
?,?,?http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-repeat.php#90555Damien Bezborodov , yeah but execution time of your solution is 3-5 times worse than str_replace.<?php
functionspam($number) {
returnstr_repeat('test', $number);
}
functionspam2($number) {
returnimplode('', array_fill(0, $number, 'test'));
}//echo spam(4);$before= microtime(true);
for ($i= 0; $i< 100000; $i++) {spam(10);
}
echomicrotime(true) - $before, "\n"; // 0.010297$before= microtime(true);
for ($i= 0; $i< 100000; $i++) {spam2(10);
}
echomicrotime(true) - $before; // 0.032104Here is a shorter versionen of Kees van Dieren's function below, which is moreover compatible with the syntax of str_repeat:<?php
functionstr_repeat_extended($imput, $multiplier, $separator='')
{
return$multiplier==0? '' : str_repeat($imput.$separator, $multiplier-1).$imput;
}
?>hi guys ,
i've faced this example :<?php
$my_head = str_repeat("°~", 35);
echo$my_head;
?>
so , the length should be 35x2 = 70 !!!
if we echo it :<?php
$my_head = str_repeat("°~", 35);
echostrlen($my_head); // 105echomb_strlen($my_head, 'UTF-8'); // 70?>
be carefull with characters and try to use mb_* paccague to maque sure everything goes well ...