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StringRepeat["str",n]

creates a string consisting of "str" repeated n times.

StringRepeat["str",n,max]

creates a string consisting of up to n copies of "str", truncated to be of maximum total length at most max.

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StringRepeat

StringRepeat["str",n]

creates a string consisting of "str" repeated n times.

StringRepeat["str",n,max]

creates a string consisting of up to n copies of "str", truncated to be of maximum total length at most max.

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Basic Examples  (2)

Create a string of 50 a's:

Repeat a triplet of characters 10 times:

Truncate after a fixed length:

Scope  (1)

Build a repeated biomolecular sequence:

Neat Examples  (1)

"Create" a telomere:

Wolfram Research (2015), StringRepeat, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringRepeat.html (updated 2020).

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Wolfram Research (2015), StringRepeat, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringRepeat.html (updated 2020).

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Wolfram Language. 2015. "StringRepeat." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2020. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringRepeat.html.

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Wolfram Language. (2015). StringRepeat. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringRepeat.html

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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_stringrepeat, author="Wolfram Research", title="{StringRepeat}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringRepeat.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_stringrepeat, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={StringRepeat}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringRepeat.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}