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NAME

lrepeat — Build a list by repeating elements

SYNOPSIS

lrepeat count ?element ...?

DESCRIPTION

The lrepeat command creates a list of size count * number of elements by repeating count times the sequence of elements element .... count must be a non-negative integer, element can be any Tcl value.

Note that lrepeat 1 element ... is identical to list element ....

EXAMPLES

lrepeat 3 a
      → a a a
lrepeat 3 [lrepeat 3 0]
      → {0 0 0} {0 0 0} {0 0 0}
lrepeat 3 a b c
      → a b c a b c a b c
lrepeat 3 [lrepeat 2 a] b c
      → {a a} b c {a a} b c {a a} b c

SEE ALSO

list, lappend, lassign, ledit, lindex, linsert, llength, lmap, lpop, lrange, lremove, lreplace, lreverse, lsearch, lseq, lset, lsort

KEYWORDS

element, index, list
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