Is there equivalent for VFP's REPLICATE() in .NET?

[IlyaRabyy]

Colleagues,
I've been working in VFP for so-o-o long! T'was wonderful RDBMS (that now all but RIP).
But - "tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis", and I went back to VB, this time - in .NET.
There were many built-in functions in VFP that I used quite often, one of them was REPLICATE(), e.g.

REPLICATE("*", 16)

gives you

"[tt]****************[/tt]"

Is there any equivalent in .NET to that VFP's function? Or I'll have to "roll yer own"?

TIA!

Regards,

Ilya

 

[Andrzejek]

Did you try this?

You will find out:[tt]
Dim a As New String("*"c, 16)[/tt]


---- Andy

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

 

[IlyaRabyy]

It requires two lines of code, e.g.

Dim a As New String("*"c, 16)
'...
File.WriteAllText(cFullPath, a)

I was hoping to have one line only. Can't test it now, so have to ask: Would

File.WriteAllText(cFullPath, String("*",16)

do the same?

Regards,

Ilya

 

[strongm]

File.WriteAllText(cFullPath, New String("*",16))

 

[IlyaRabyy]

Ah! Gotta be

New String()

Right! My overlook ("mea culpa!" )
Thank you, colleague!

Regards,

Ilya