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

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

What if n = 50,003 or something? Is it doing 50,002 concatenations?

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Simple way to create a big string of blanks?


> > Is there an easy way to create a large string of blanks? Say, 2500 or 
> > more long?
>
> string.rep(" ",2500)