How do I repeat a character n times in a string?

Question

I am learning Perl, so please bear with me for this noob question.

How do I repeat a character n times in a string?

I want to do something like below:

Answer 1

Your regular expression can be written as:

$numOfChar = 10;

s/^(.*)/(' ' x $numOfChar).$1/e;

but - you can do it with:

s/^/' ' x $numOfChar/e;

Or without using regexps at all:

$_ = ( ' ' x $numOfChar ) . $_;