REPEAT with special key codes

[Bruce Easton]

Barry Wiseman wrote:

>
>     Use PUSHKEY to push 10 right-arrow keys
>
>         Then: pushkey repeat ("[CRGT]","10")
>
> I tried doing this today, but only a single [CRGT] was performed.
>  It seems REPEAT
> doesn't want a special key code in the first arg.  The output of
> my test program
>
> 	::end:
> 	@KEYT::zz(50,*)=repeat("[CRGT]","5"); errorbox zz:
>
> is:
>
> 	[CRGT
>
> Of course, I've coded
>
> 	loop:i lt Value:zz=zz { "[CRGT]"; i=i + "1"; goto loop:
> 	::pushkey zz:
>
> and moved on, but still curious for the future: can REPEAT be
> used this way, or is
> this more info in the online docs that's Just Plain Wrong?
>
>
Your last argument in the repeat command needs to be the total character
length that you expect the result to be - in this case, try "60."