Question

I want to use columns ‘A’ and ‘B’ to create column ‘Result’ which is content of A repeated B number of times

A  B  Result
z  3  zzz
az 2  azaz

Tried using Result=repeat(A,B) which didn’t work out. Is there something I missed while using the repeat statement?

Answer 1

The REPEAT function returns a character value consisting of the first argument repeated n times, Thus, the first argument appears n + 1 times in the result.

So, you have to subtract 1 from B to get the result that you want.

Try

Result=repeat(A,int(B)-1)