From 7ccded5f6daa9280842536a9590742f22ae1df32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tommy Hallgren <thallgren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:35:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] KT-2503 Added String.repeat method

 #KT-2503 fixed
---
 libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/Strings.kt | 15 +++++++++++++++
 libraries/stdlib/test/StringTest.kt    |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/Strings.kt b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/Strings.kt
index bf8625f272f..ae159b579e5 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/Strings.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/Strings.kt
@@ -63,3 +63,18 @@ public inline fun String.count(predicate: (Char) -> Boolean): Int {
     }
     return answer
 }
+
+/**
+ * Repeats a given string n times.
+ * When n < 0, IllegalArgumentException is thrown.
+ * @includeFunctionBody ../../test/StringTest.kt repeat
+ */
+public inline fun String.repeat(n: Int): String {
+    require(n >= 0, { "Cannot repeat string $n times" })
+
+    var sb = StringBuilder()
+    for (i in 1..n) {
+        sb.append(this)
+    }
+    return sb.toString()
+}
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/test/StringTest.kt b/libraries/stdlib/test/StringTest.kt
index 30e8a1ededc..072cc9d489a 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/test/StringTest.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/test/StringTest.kt
@@ -49,4 +49,12 @@ class StringTest {
         assertEquals("uRL", "URL".decapitalize())
     }
 
+    test fun repeat() {
+        fails{ "foo".repeat(-1) }
+        assertEquals("", "foo".repeat(0))
+        assertEquals("foo", "foo".repeat(1))
+        assertEquals("foofoo", "foo".repeat(2))
+        assertEquals("foofoofoo", "foo".repeat(3))
+    }
+
 }