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

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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.

Sorry for not properly formatting my code and thanks for the correction. — Alexander, Nov 19 '12 at 15:19
plz, see here. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/532892/can-i-multiply-a-string-in-c/532912#532912 — Oleg, Nov 19 '12 at 15:19
Repeating a character and repeating the string aren't the same. Voting to reopen the question. Coincidentally [the accepted answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/3754700/465053) in the thread used to mark this question as duplicate should have been in this thread instead. — RBT, Sep 02 '17 at 02:27
Now I found that this post is a possible duplicate of this [post](https://stackoverflow.com/q/411752/465053) instead. — RBT, Sep 02 '17 at 02:39

score 17 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:19

17

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.

answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:19

Tim Schmelter

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? – Alexander Nov 19 '12 at 16:50
For Python 3: print('.' * 10) – torina Feb 09 '17 at 11:42

Jonathan Wood · Answer 2 · 2012-11-21T23:35:28.823

3

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));

edited Nov 21 '12 at 23:35

answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:19

Jonathan Wood

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:22

3

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

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

answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:22

Dan Puzey

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:21

-1

try something like this

string print = "";
for(int i = 0; i< 10 ; i++)
{
print = print + ".";
} 
Console.WriteLine(print);

answered Nov 19 '12 at 15:21

Schuere

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