AWK print a character many times

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

How can I print a '-' on the same line within awk, say 50 times, without actually typing '-' 50 times?

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2

I'd use perl,

perl -e 'print("-" x 50, "\n" );'

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ZB

3

Within awk, using a "for" loop...

awk 'BEGIN{for(c=0;c<50;c++) printf "-"; printf "\n"}'

...or the less common "do while" loop...

awk 'BEGIN{c=0; do{printf "-"; c++}while(c<50); printf "\n"}'
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Cheers guys

Thanks for yoru help