SAP REPEAT FUNCTIONS

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• repeat ABAP_FUNCTION

repeat - Repeat Function

Syntax
... repeat( val = text occ = occ ) ...

Effect
This function returns a character string that contains the content of text as many times as specified in occ. If text is an empty string or if occ contains the value 0, an empty string is returned.
occ is a numerical expression position of type i. If the value of occ is negative, an exception of the class CX_SY_STRG_PAR_VAL is raised.
The return code has the type string.

Note
The parameter occ has a different meaning here than in functions used for searching.

Example
The function repeat is used to create a string with ten blanks. result = repeat( val = ` ` occ = 10 ).



Runtime Exceptions

Catchable Exceptions
CX_SY_STRG_PAR_VAL
Reason for error:
Occurrences in occ are less than 0.
Runtime error:
STRG_ILLEGAL_PAR