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fastftw

Sat Nov 03, 2012 11:14 am


Java Printing Question : Multiple characters through mathematical operations?

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I was looking at some python code and you can print characters multiple times through multiplication in a print statement. Example:

out.write("*"*d)

I was wondering if there is an equivalent in java? Something that would imitate 

System.out.println("*"*3);

which would output:

***

Thanks a bunch!


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Insectoid

Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:02 pm


RE:Java Printing Question : Multiple characters through mathematical operations?

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Not as far as I know. Just use a for loop. There might be a string operation that does this (which is independent from the output stream) but I doubt it.


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DemonWasp

Sun Nov 04, 2012 2:50 pm


RE:Java Printing Question : Multiple characters through mathematical operations?

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There's no standard multiplication operation for Strings. The only overloaded operator in Java is string+string, which works for concatenation.

You could write your own, but it wouldn't be as concise, which is fairly common in Java.