<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >copy-string</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DSSSL Library Reference" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Miscellaneous" HREF="r300.htm"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="file-extension" HREF="file-extension.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="node-list-filter-by-gi" HREF="node-list-filter-by-gi.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DSSSL Library Reference: Part of the Modular DocBook Stylesheet distribution</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="file-extension.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="node-list-filter-by-gi.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="COPY-STRING" ></A >copy-string</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1040" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >copy-string -- Return a string duplicated a specified number of times</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN1043" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >(copy-string string num)</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1046" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P >Copies <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >string</TT > <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >num</TT > times and returns the result.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1051" ></A ><H2 >Example</H2 ><P >(copy-string "x" 3) returns "xxx"</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1054" ></A ><H2 >Author</H2 ><P >Norman Walsh, <ndw@nwalsh.com></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1057" ></A ><H2 >Source Code</H2 ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >(define (copy-string string num) ;; Return a string duplicated a specified number of times (if (<= num 0) "" (let loop ((str string) (count (- num 1))) (if (<= count 0) str (loop (string-append str string) (- count 1))))))</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="file-extension.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="node-list-filter-by-gi.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >file-extension</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r300.htm" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >node-list-filter-by-gi</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >