Android Question Initialize a string

[realblue]

Hi everybody,

I like to initialize a string with 10 * 8192 spaces. Is there a simple way like in Visual Basic : StrDup(10*8192," ")

 

[eurojam]

not so short, not very elegant, but should work

  Dim s As String = ""
  For i = 1 To 81920
    s = s & " "
  Next

 

[realblue]

Yes of course but may be there is an efficient way

 

[eurojam]

use stringfunctions lib: AddSpaces (HowMany As Int) As String

 

[eurojam]

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/string-functions.10365/

 

[realblue]

Thank you eurojam but I rather use for next since the library will load a lot of code that I don't use.

 

[Erel]

Strings are immutable objects. You shouldn't concatenate 81920 characters one by one. It will be slow.

You should use StringBuilder instead.

Or another option:

Sub CreateSpace(Length As Int) As String
   Dim b(Length) As Byte
   Dim s As Int = Asc(" ")
   For i = 0 To b.Length - 1
     b(i) = s
   Next
   Return BytesToString(b, 0, b.Length, "ASCII")
End Sub