RepeatValue ( Text ; NumRepeat )
Return return separated text of "Text" repeated "NumRepeat" times.
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Koji Takeuchi - Show more from this author
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Sample input:
RepeatValue ( "foo" ; 4 )
Sample output:
"foo¶foo¶foo¶foo"
Function definition: (Copy & paste into FileMaker's Edit Custom Function window)
/*
RepeatValue ( Text ; NumRepeat )
2009.03.04, Koji Takeuchi
description:
Return return separated text of "Text" repeated "NumRepeat" times.
ex.
RepeatValue ( "foo" ; 4 )
-> "foo¶foo¶foo¶foo"
*/
Comments
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Matthew Dahlquist, Minneapolis Mar 29, 2016 |
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| Discovered that, when feeing in a repeat value programmatically, a repeat value of 0 would act as if a repeat value of 1 rather than returning an empty result. Case ( numRepeat > 1 ; RepeatValue ( text ; numRepeat - 1 ) & "¶" & Text ; numRepeat < 1 ; "" ; Text ) fixes that. |
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