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repeat-string

> Repeat the given string n times. Fastest implementation for repeating a string.

# Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save repeat-string

# Usage

## <a href="index.js#L41">repeat</a>

Repeat the given `string` the specified `number` of times.

Example:

Example

var repeat = require('repeat-string');
repeat('A', 5);
//=> AAAAA

Params

- `string` **{String}**: The string to repeat
- `number` **{Number}**: The number of times to repeat the string
- `returns` **{String}**: Repeated string

# Benchmarks

Repeat string is significantly faster than the native method (which is itself faster than repeating):

# 2x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (26,953,977 ops/sec)
repeating █████████ (9,855,695 ops/sec)
native ██████████████████ (19,453,895 ops/sec)
# 3x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (19,445,252 ops/sec)
repeating ███████████ (8,661,565 ops/sec)
native ████████████████████ (16,020,598 ops/sec)
# 10x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,792,521 ops/sec)
repeating █████████ (8,571,332 ops/sec)
native ███████████████ (14,582,955 ops/sec)
# 50x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,640,179 ops/sec)
repeating █████ (5,505,509 ops/sec)
native ██████████ (10,085,557 ops/sec)
# 250x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,489,618 ops/sec)
repeating ████ (3,962,937 ops/sec)
native ████████ (7,724,892 ops/sec)
# 2000x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (20,315,172 ops/sec)
repeating ████ (3,297,079 ops/sec)
native ███████ (6,203,331 ops/sec)
# 20000x
repeat-string █████████████████████████ (23,382,915 ops/sec)
repeating ███ (2,980,058 ops/sec)
native █████ (5,578,808 ops/sec)

Run the benchmarks

Install dev dependencies:

npm i -d && node benchmark

# About

## Related projects

repeat-element: Create an array by repeating the given value n times. | homepage

## Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

## Contributors

Commits | Contributor
--- | ---
51 | jonschlinkert
2 | LinusU
2 | tbusser
1 | doowb
1 | wooorm

## Building docs

_(This document was generated by verb-generate-readme (a verb generator), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in .verb.md.)_

To generate the readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install -g verb verb-generate-readme && verb

## Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

## Author

Jon Schlinkert

- github/jonschlinkert
- twitter/jonschlinkert

## License

Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT license.

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.2.0, on October 23, 2016.