Is there a function to pad a string like this?

@mityaDec 20.2003

Say I want to pad a string with X number of a certain string. So if I wanted to create a var with “hello” entered 3 times, is there an inherent way to do this? So the string would be “hellohellohello”

I’m just wondering if there’s a padding method rather than constant concatenation within a loop.

Thanks in advance.

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@pyroDec 21.2003 — #How about [URL=http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php]str_pad()[/URL].

@mityaauthorDec 21.2003 — #lol I felt just as dumb when someone else pointed this out on another forum.

New years resolution: do some research. Cheers.

@Orsen_CartSep 02.2004 — #Hi

Is there an equivalent function in javascript?

I've looked on a few javascript sites in my O'Reilly books and can't find anything.

Many thanks

@JonaSep 02.2004 — #[i]Originally posted by Orsen Cart [/i]

[B]Is there an equivalent function in javascript? [/B][/QUOTE]

<i>
 </i>  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
 function str_pad(str,pL,pR,lTimes,rTimes){
 var p_L = '', p_R = '';
 for(i=0; i&lt;lTimes; i++){
 p_L += pL;
 }
 for(i=0; i&lt;rTimes; i++){
 p_R += pR;
 }
 str = p_L+str+p_R;
 return str;
 }
 
 window.onload = function(){
 var str = "my String";
 alert(str);
 str = str_pad(str,"&lt;","&gt;",3,3);
 alert(str);
 }
 &lt;/script&gt;

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