String repeat in JavaScript, and as a jQuery extension.

Repeating a string multiple times isn't as easy as in Perl that you say $str x 3. str * 3 simply gives you a NaN. So I wrote this textbook-code-example-like repeat() funciton, that takes a String and a Number, returns a new String. function repeat(str, i) { if (isNaN(i) || i <= 0) return ""; return str + repeat(str, i-1); } Putting it down as a jquery extension, it becomes this snippet: (function($){ $.extend({ repeat: function(str, i) { if (isNaN(i) || i == 0) return ""; return str + $.repeat(str, i-1); } }) })(jQuery); It's used like this: var rating = 3; var star = "<img src='star.gif'>"; // Show some number of stars based on rating. $("#rating").html( $.repeat(star, rating) )

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