What can the string function StrDup() do ?

First of all StrDup() fuction is a member of the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings.

It comes in three flavors:

StrDup(Integer,Char) as String

StrDup(Integer, Object) as Object

StrDup(Integer,String) as String

What it returns in each case is the first character of the

string the number of times.

Say, if the string is "yes" and the integer is 7 you would get

yyyyyyy as the return value. In the case of the argument

Object, the object should be either a string or a char.

Observe the following listing: