std::string.append(numtimes, char to repeat); There. It does. Now, that works for character literals, as for doing that with strings there is no way to do that declaratively. Also to note, the std::string class isn't a language type, a string litteral in c++ is const char *. A pointer. Which Arrays decay into pointers, and that's how the std::string class treats what it contains , an array of characters ie char, or wchar_t for std::wstring. there templated on those types.
