VMS Help  —  MACRO  /ALPHA  Lexical Operators, %REPEAT
    Lexical operator for repeating a specified string a specified
    number of times.

    Format

      %REPEAT  (integer,string)

1  –  Arguments

 integer

    The first argument, of type integer, is the number of times to
    repeat the string. If you specify a negative value, the string is
    repeated 0 times.

 string

    The second argument, of type string, is the string to be
    repeated.

2  –  Description

    %REPEAT is used to repeat the specified string a specified number
    of times.

3  –  Example

             .PRINT "Never, %REPEAT (3, <ever, >)touch that button!"

      After lexical processing, the statement appears as:

             .PRINT "Never, ever, ever, ever, touch that button!"
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