Repeat a text $number times (Harlowe)

joebaxterwebb

Hi all, new to Twine. Have quite a large project made in Harlowe over the past week that I'm happy with, but I'm stumped on one thing.

I want to make a display along the top of some of my scenes, just with a | or similar character printed X number of times to represent how many times the player has to do a thing until the day is over.

So what I need is the function to do something along the lines of (print: "|") and then something to wrap that in, which will repeat it a number of times stored in a $variable. I've looked through the whole of the neocities and there is no description of this sort of feature.

The Javascript function for this on rosettacode.org is something like

console.log("ha".repeat(5)); to get "hahahahaha"


Any ideas?

greyelf

You basically answered your own question. *smile*

Try the following:

(set: $count to 5)
(set: $output to "|".repeat($count))
output: $output

joebaxterwebb

Perfect! Thankyou so much