*(p1)
public
Copy—Returns a new String containing integer copies of the
receiver.
"Ho! " * 3
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/*
* call-seq:
* str * integer => new_str
*
* Copy---Returns a new <code>String</code> containing <i>integer</i> copies of
* the receiver.
*
* "Ho! " * 3 #=> "Ho! Ho! Ho! "
*/
VALUE
rb_str_times(str, times)
VALUE str;
VALUE times;
{
VALUE str2;
long i, len;
len = NUM2LONG(times);
if (len < 0) {
rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "negative argument");
}
if (len && LONG_MAX/len < RSTRING(str)->len) {
rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "argument too big");
}
str2 = rb_str_new5(str,0, len *= RSTRING(str)->len);
for (i = 0; i < len; i += RSTRING(str)->len) {
memcpy(RSTRING(str2)->ptr + i,
RSTRING(str)->ptr, RSTRING(str)->len);
}
RSTRING(str2)->ptr[RSTRING(str2)->len] = '\0';
OBJ_INFECT(str2, str);
return str2;
}