On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 09:02:12 UTC, Bahman Movaqar wrote:
I'm sure I'm missing something very simple but how can I create
a string
like "----" using `format`?
I check the docs on `format` and tried many variations including
`format("%.*c\n", 4, '-')` but got nowhere.
I'd appreciate any hint/help on this.
There's at least one way to do this, by using position arguments
and repeating it the desired number of times in the format string.
format("%1$s%1$s%1$s%1$s\n", '-')
But as you can see this is pretty ugly and can easily introduce
bugs in your format string.
