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Repeat the given string n times. Fastest implementation for repeating a string.

Install

Install with npm:

  1. $ npm install --save repeat-string

Usage

repeat

Repeat the given string the specified number of times.

Example:

Example

  1. var repeat = require('repeat-string');
  2. repeat('A', 5);
  3. //=> AAAAA

Params

  • string {String}: The string to repeat
  • number {Number}: The number of times to repeat the string
  • returns {String}: Repeated string

Benchmarks

Repeat string is significantly faster than the native method (which is itself faster than repeating):

  1. # 2x
  2. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (26,953,977 ops/sec)
  3. repeating      █████████                  (9,855,695 ops/sec)
  4. native         ██████████████████         (19,453,895 ops/sec)
  6. # 3x
  7. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (19,445,252 ops/sec)
  8. repeating      ███████████                (8,661,565 ops/sec)
  9. native         ████████████████████       (16,020,598 ops/sec)
  11. # 10x
  12. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (23,792,521 ops/sec)
  13. repeating      █████████                  (8,571,332 ops/sec)
  14. native         ███████████████            (14,582,955 ops/sec)
  16. # 50x
  17. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (23,640,179 ops/sec)
  18. repeating      █████                      (5,505,509 ops/sec)
  19. native         ██████████                 (10,085,557 ops/sec)
  21. # 250x
  22. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (23,489,618 ops/sec)
  23. repeating      ████                       (3,962,937 ops/sec)
  24. native         ████████                   (7,724,892 ops/sec)
  26. # 2000x
  27. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (20,315,172 ops/sec)
  28. repeating      ████                       (3,297,079 ops/sec)
  29. native         ███████                    (6,203,331 ops/sec)
  31. # 20000x
  32. repeat-string  █████████████████████████  (23,382,915 ops/sec)
  33. repeating      ███                        (2,980,058 ops/sec)
  34. native         █████                      (5,578,808 ops/sec)

Run the benchmarks

Install dev dependencies:

  1. npm i -d && node benchmark

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Contributors

Commits Contributor
51 jonschlinkert
2 LinusU
2 tbusser
1 doowb
1 wooorm

Building docs

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  1. $ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

  1. $ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

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