How to generate sequence of numbers/chars in javascript?

Question

Is there a way to generate sequence of characters or numbers in javascript?

For example, I want to create array that contains eight 1s. I can do it with for loop, bu

Answer 1

Using Jquery:

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$.map($(Array(8)),function(val, i) { return i; })

This returns:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

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$.map($(Array(8)),function() { return 1; })

This returns:

[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]

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