Problem 1461. Duplicate a character

Created by Selvaraaju Murugesan

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Duplicate a character 'n' times.

Example 1: str='a' n=5

output='aaaaa'

Example 2: str='*' n=3

output='***'

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Mineralter on 28 Apr 2013

n is a nonnegative interger.may it be the largest problem that i meet.

Björn on 5 Dec 2015

My initial solution with repelem(str,n) for n=0 creates a size 1x0 char class but suite only allows for a 0x0 class. Not sure why the difference would matter.

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