From: William James Date: 2008-03-09T02:25:03+09:00 Subject: Re: duplicating characters in a string On Mar 7, 6:56 pm, 7stud -- wrote: > (I refuse to consider any code that uses perl syntax) So you won't be able to do this any more: 2 + 2 You'll have to use Forth: 2 2 + or Lisp: (+ 2 2) Some awk syntax: gsub( /./, "&&", s )