lrepeat(n)

lrepeatn

Build a list by repeating elements

Usage

lrepeat number element1 ?element2 element3 ...?

Overview

The lrepeat command creates a list of size number * number of elements by repeating number times the sequence of elements element1 element2 .... number must be a positive integer, elementn can be any Tcl value. Note that lrepeat 1 arg ... is identical to list arg ..., though the arg is required with lrepeat.

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

Keywords

element, index, list

Releases

Unchanged in 106 releases since Mac OS X 10.6.

  1. 10.6–26.5

From tcl 152 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.