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Is there an easy way to return a string repeated X number of times?

In Python you can multiply sequences like this

fivespaces= ' ' * 5

Is there any built-in equivalent for this in C#? (without operator overloads or class extensions)

Answer 1

If it’s just a string then you can return multiples by passing in a count to string()

var fivespaces = new string(" ", 5);

In the case where you want a collection of something else like a custom type, you can use Enumerable.Repeat to get a collection:

var items = Enumerable.Repeat(new SomeModel(), 5);