How to write 'n' copies of a character to ostream like in python

Question

In python, the following instruction: print \'a\'*5 would output aaaaa. How would one write something similar in C++ in conjunction with std:

Answer 1

You can do something like that by overloading the * operator for std::string. Here is a small example

#include
#include
std::string operator*(const std::string &c,int n)
{
    std::string str;
    for(int i=0;i