repeat-string
Repeat the given string n times. Fastest implementation for repeating a string.
Install
Install with npm:
$ npm install --save repeat-string
Usage
Repeat the given string
the specified number
of times.
Example:
Example
var repeat = require('repeat-string');
repeat('A', 5);
Params
string
{String}: The string to repeatnumber
{Number}: The number of times to repeat the stringreturns
{String}: Repeated string
Benchmarks
Repeat string is significantly faster than the native method (which is itself faster than repeating):
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (26,953,977 ops/sec)
repeating █████████ (9,855,695 ops/sec)
native ██████████████████ (19,453,895 ops/sec)
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (19,445,252 ops/sec)
repeating ███████████ (8,661,565 ops/sec)
native ████████████████████ (16,020,598 ops/sec)
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,792,521 ops/sec)
repeating █████████ (8,571,332 ops/sec)
native ███████████████ (14,582,955 ops/sec)
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,640,179 ops/sec)
repeating █████ (5,505,509 ops/sec)
native ██████████ (10,085,557 ops/sec)
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,489,618 ops/sec)
repeating ████ (3,962,937 ops/sec)
native ████████ (7,724,892 ops/sec)
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (20,315,172 ops/sec)
repeating ████ (3,297,079 ops/sec)
native ███████ (6,203,331 ops/sec)
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,382,915 ops/sec)
repeating ███ (2,980,058 ops/sec)
native █████ (5,578,808 ops/sec)
Run the benchmarks
Install dev dependencies:
npm i -d && node benchmark
About
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Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Contributors
Building docs
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$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
$ npm install -d && npm test
Author
Jon Schlinkert
License
Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert.
Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.2.0, on October 23, 2016.