How to print the same character many times with Console.WriteLine()

Question

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Is there an easy way to return a string repeated X number of times?

If I want to display a dot 10 times in Python, I could either use this:

print ".........."

or this

print "." * 10

How do I use the second method in C#? I tried variations of:

Console.WriteLine("."*10);

but none of them worked. Thanks.

Solution 1

You can use the string constructor:

Console.WriteLine(new string('.', 10));

Initializes a new instance of the String class to the value indicated by a specified Unicode character repeated a specified number of times.

Solution 2

I would say the most straight forward answer is to use a for loop. This uses less storage.

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    Console.Write('.');
Console.WriteLine();

But you can also allocate a string that contains the repeated characters. This involves less typing and is almost certainly faster.

Console.WriteLine(new String('.', 10));

Solution 3

You can use one of the 'string' constructors, like so:

Console.WriteLine(new string('.', 10));

Comments

[Alexander Popov]

Thanks for the answer, it worked. And just a quick general question. I am new to StackOverflow. If I see that several people have given correct answers and all of them are equally correct and exhaustive, on what basis do I mark a particular answer as best answer?

[torina]

For Python 3: print('.' * 10)