repeat-string Repeat the given string n times. Fastest implementation for repeating a string.
Install
Install with npm :
Copy $ npm install --save repeat-string
Usage
Repeat the given string
the specified number
of times.
Example:
Example
Copy var repeat = require ( 'repeat-string' );
repeat ( 'A' , 5 );
//=> 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 ):
Copy # 2x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ ( 26,953,977 ops/sec )
repeating █████████ (9,855,695 ops/sec )
native ██████████████████ (19,453,895 ops/sec )
# 3x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ ( 19,445,252 ops/sec )
repeating ███████████ (8,661,565 ops/sec )
native ████████████████████ (16,020,598 ops/sec )
# 10x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ ( 23,792,521 ops/sec )
repeating █████████ (8,571,332 ops/sec )
native ███████████████ (14,582,955 ops/sec )
# 50x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ ( 23,640,179 ops/sec )
repeating █████ (5,505,509 ops/sec )
native ██████████ (10,085,557 ops/sec )
# 250x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ ( 23,489,618 ops/sec )
repeating ████ (3,962,937 ops/sec )
native ████████ (7,724,892 ops/sec )
# 2000x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ ( 20,315,172 ops/sec )
repeating ████ (3,297,079 ops/sec )
native ███████ (6,203,331 ops/sec )
# 20000x
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:
Copy 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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To generate the readme and API documentation with verb :
Copy $ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb
Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
Copy $ 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.