Building a string from n chars

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On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 20:20:09 UTC, Meta wrote:
> 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);

Sorry, I should qualify that replicate is from std.array. You can 
also just do either `s ~= repeat('*', n).array` OR `s ~= 
repeat('*', n).to!string`. Either should work.