Create a string of variable length, filled with a repeated character

Question

So, my question has been asked by someone else in it\'s Java form here: Java - Create a new String instance with specified length and filled with specific character. Best so

Answer 1

ES2015 the easiest way is to do something like

'X'.repeat(data.length)

X being any string, data.length being the desired length.

see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/repeat