What is the easiest way to generate a String of n repeated characters?

Question

Given a character c and a number n, how can I create a String that consists of n repetitions of c? Doing it manually is too cumbersome:

StringBuilder sb = ne         


        

Answer 1

Google Guava Time!

Strings.repeat("a", 3)

http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/base/Strings.html