str_repeat

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

str_repeatRepeat a string

Опис

string str_repeat ( string $input , int $multiplier )

Returns input repeated multiplier times.

Параметри

input

The string to be repeated.

multiplier

Number of time the input string should be repeated.

multiplier has to be greater than or equal to 0. If the multiplier is set to 0, the function will return an empty string.

Значення, що повертаються

Returns the repeated string.

Приклади

Приклад #1 str_repeat() example

<?php
echo str_repeat("-="10);
?>

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Damien Bezborodov
14 years ago
Here is a simple one liner to repeat a string multiple times with a separator:

<?php
implode
($separator, array_fill(0, $multiplier, $input));
?>

Example script:
<?php

// How I like to repeat a string using standard PHP functions
$input = 'bar';
$multiplier = 5;
$separator = ',';
print
implode($separator, array_fill(0, $multiplier, $input));
print
"\n";

// Say, this comes in handy with count() on an array that we want to use in an
// SQL query such as 'WHERE foo IN (...)'
$args = array('1', '2', '3');
print
implode(',', array_fill(0, count($args), '?'));
print
"\n";
?>

Example Output:
bar,bar,bar,bar,bar
?,?,?
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Anonymous
12 years ago
hi guys ,
i've faced this example :
<?php

$my_head
= str_repeat("°~", 35);
echo
$my_head;

?>

so , the length should be 35x2 = 70 !!!
if we echo it :

<?php
$my_head
= str_repeat("°~", 35);
echo
strlen($my_head); // 105
echo mb_strlen($my_head, 'UTF-8'); // 70
?>

be carefull with characters and try to use mb_* package to make sure everything goes well ...
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claude dot pache at gmail dot com
15 years ago
Here is a shorter version of Kees van Dieren's function below, which is moreover compatible with the syntax of str_repeat:

<?php
function str_repeat_extended($input, $multiplier, $separator='')
{
    return
$multiplier==0 ? '' : str_repeat($input.$separator, $multiplier-1).$input;
}
?>
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Alexander Ovsiyenko
5 years ago
http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-repeat.php#90555

Damien Bezborodov , yeah but execution time of your solution is 3-5 times worse than str_replace.

<?php

function spam($number) {
    return
str_repeat('test', $number);
}

function
spam2($number) {
    return
implode('', array_fill(0, $number, 'test'));
}

//echo spam(4);
$before = microtime(true);
for (
$i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
   
spam(10);
}
echo
microtime(true) - $before , "\n"; // 0.010297
$before = microtime(true);
for (
$i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
   
spam2(10);
}
echo
microtime(true) - $before; // 0.032104
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Anonymous
20 years ago
str_repeat does not repeat symbol with code 0 on some (maybe all?) systems (tested on PHP Version 4.3.2 , FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 ).

Use <pre>
while(strlen($str) < $desired) $str .= chr(0);
</pre> to have string filled with zero-symbols.
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