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lrepeat(n)

lrepeat - Build a list by repeating elements

lrepeat(n) Tcl Built-In Commands lrepeat(n)


lrepeat - Build a list by repeating elements

lrepeat count ?element ...?


The lrepeat command creates a list of size count * number of elements by repeating count times the sequence of elements element .... count must be a non-negative integer, element can be any Tcl value.

Note that lrepeat 1 element ... is identical to list element ....

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

list(n), lappend(n), lassign(n), ledit(n), lindex(n), linsert(n), llength(n), lmap(n), lpop(n), lrange(n), lremove(n), lreplace(n), lreverse(n), lsearch(n), lseq(n), lset(n), lsort(n)

element, index, list

8.5 Tcl

tcl 9.1.0-r0 · os · ingested 2026-09-30