Lisp format a character a number of times

Question

I am looking for a way to output a character a number of times using format. Is this possible? Can someone fill in the _?_\'s, so that the example works?

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Answer 1

Like the answer of Lars, but we write the character wih ~C, instead of using the printer with ~A:

(format nil "~v@{~C~:*~}" 3 #\*)

Writing a character with something like write-char is a simpler operation than printing a Lisp object. The printer has a lot of context to observe and has to find the right way to print the object. OTOH, something like WRITE-CHAR just writes a single character to a stream.