Re: Simple way to create a big string of blanks?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I actually didn't try using string.rep() because I veered away when I read 
> its documentation that said it "concatenates". So it did not sound like the 
> tool to use.

What is missing in the docs is the implementation detail that lua_concat
is very efficient.