Building a string from n chars

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On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 19:43:26 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> Is there a simpler way to way to
>
> s ~= repeat('*', n).array.to!string;
>
> if s has to be of type string?

Does this work?

s ~= "*".replicate(n);