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

Based on answers from Hogan and Zero Trick Pony. I think this should be both fast and flexible enough to handle well most use cases:

var hash = '####################################################################'

function build_string(length) {  
    if (length == 0) {  
        return ''  
    } else if (hash.length <= length) {  
        return hash.substring(0, length)  
    } else {  
        var result = hash  
        const half_length = length / 2  
        while (result.length <= half_length) {  
            result += result  
        }  
        return result + result.substring(0, length - result.length)  
    }  
}  

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

I would create a constant string and then call substring on it.

Something like

var hashStore = '########################################';

var Fiveup = hashStore.substring(0,5);

var Tenup = hashStore.substring(0,10);

A bit faster too.

http://jsperf.com/const-vs-join

Answer 4

Give this a try :P

s = '#'.repeat(10)

document.body.innerHTML = s