@fav/text.repeat

Repeat the source string the given times.

"fav" is an abbreviation of "favorite" and also the acronym of "for all versions". This package is intended to support all Node.js versions and many browsers as possible. At least, this package supports Node.js >= v0.10 and major Web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, IE11, Edge, Vivaldi and Safari.

Install

To install from npm:

$ npm install --save @fav/text.repeat

NOTE: npm < 2.7.0 does not support scoped package, but even old version Node.js supports it. So when you use such older npm, you should download this package from github.com, and move it in node_modules/@fav/text.repeat/ directory manually.

Usage

For Node.js, when installing @fav/text.repeat from npm:

var repeat = require('@fav/text.repeat');
repeat('*', 3);  // => '***'
repeat('abc', 2); // => 'abcabc'

For Web browsers:

<script src="fav.text.repeat.min.js"></script>
<script>
var repeat = fav.text.repeat;
repeat('*', 3) ; // => '***'
</script>

API

repeat(source, ntimes) : string

Repeat source ntimes times.

NOTE: This function doesn't check data types of the arguments, and assumes that they are given as per the specific data types.

Parameter:

Parameter	Type	Description
source	string	The string to repeat.
ntimes	number	The number of times to repeat.

Return:

Type	Description
string	The repeated string.

Checked

Node.js (4〜12)

Platform	11	12
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Windows10	◯	◯
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Platform	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
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io.js (1〜3)

Platform	1	2	3
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Node.js (〜0.12)

Platform	0.8	0.9	0.10	0.11	0.12
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Web browsers

Platform	Chrome	Firefox	Vivaldi	Safari	Edge	IE11
macOS	◯	◯	◯	◯	--	--
Windows10	◯	◯	◯	--	◯	◯
Linux	◯	◯	◯	--	--	--

License

Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Takayuki Sato

This program is free software under MIT License. See the file LICENSE in this distribution for more details.