{"id":873,"date":"2019-04-22T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T10:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/?p=873"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T10:56:00","slug":"the-rept-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.test4u.eu\/excelpedia\/the-rept-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The REPT Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It repeats a specific text a given number of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The syntax of the function is the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>REPT<\/strong><em>(<strong>text<\/strong><span><b>, number_times<\/b><\/span><\/em>) <\/p><cite><span><b><strong>text<\/strong><\/b><\/span><strong>: <\/strong>The text you want to repeat.<br><strong>number_times<\/strong>: The number of times you want to repeat the <strong>text<\/strong>.  <br><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If <strong>number_times <\/strong>is 0 it returns an empty string (&#8220;&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its result cannot be longer than 32,767 characters. 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