NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Reference Manual

COPIES

Built-in Functions

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COPIES The COPIES built-in function returns a string made up of repetitions of another string.

An output string longer than the maximum supported length of 32,000 characters

results in an error.

COPIES(

string

)

string

specifies the string to be copied.

specifies the number of times the specified string is to be copied.

must be a

nonnegative whole number.

Example

In the following example, NCL copies the string “ABCD” three times, to give the

string “ABCDABCDABCD”:

&A = ABCD

&B = 3

&RESULT = COPIES(&A,&B)