Have any clever coding shortcuts you'd like to share?

[sarossell]

I recently needed to code a series of asterisks. LB has the space$ command, but nothing for printing multiple characters. So the first thing that came to mind was a simple function and loop like below.

print character$("*")

function character$(inString$)

    for n = 1 to 8
        character$ = character$ + "*"
    next n

end function

But then it occurred to me to use the replstr$ command with the space$ command all in one line:

print replstr$(space$(8)," ","*")

Nothing Earth-shattering, but I do enjoy efficient code examples like that. Do you have any clever code shortcuts you'd like to share?