I'm in the process of learning Rust and came across this minor thing which seems more complicated than it ought to be. I want to create a string which contains a single character repeated N times. The best I've come up with is this: (0..n).map({ |_| "X" }).collect::<Vec<_>>().concat() This is a b…

At the very least, you can simplify that by collecting directly into a String: (0..10).map(|_| "X").collect::<String>(); Another way you could do it, possibly slightly more verbose but a little more clear, is to use repeat instead of a range and map: std::iter::repeat("X").take(10).collect::<Stri…

You can also do this: String::from_utf8(vec![b'X'; 10]); This does, unfortunately, take O(n) time because it validates that the string is valid utf8.

Any method of doing this will take at leas O(n) time, since you need to make n copies of the character.

Sort of. It will actually take O(n) time because Vecs are constructed at runtime. ['X'; 10] is a constant (and free).

If by "free" you mean "you paid that O(n) cost when loading the code from disk". If it will happen once for a small vector that you might put in a constant, than the running time doesn't really matter. The running time only really matters if n is quite large, in which case, you would probably rathe…

I had a use for a repeated character today and found this question. I wanted to center a title like this: -------- My title -------- and began searching for how to easily repeat the - character. The above solutions would have worked fine, but I ended up with a slightly simpler solution using forma…

str::repeat(n) -> String is a new unstable feature, it will come in handy soon when it stabilizes.

... and as of the newly released Rust 1.16, str::repeat is now a stable feature.

Fill string with repeated character

stebalien May 1, 2015, 2:41am 8

Technically yes but with a very small coefficient...

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Fill string with repeated character

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