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Repeat the characters

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Given a string and a non-negative integer $n$, output a new string in which each character is repeated $n$ times.

Test cases:

"abc", 1    -> "abc"
"Hello", 0  -> ""
"double", 2 -> "ddoouubbllee"
"Hi", 4     -> "HHHHiiii"
"", 20      -> ""
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Python 3, 53 38 bytes

def f(x,y):
	for c in x:print(end=c*y)

Try it online!

I'm sure someone will find a lambda solution to this.

Golfed 15 bytes thanks to @Moshi's advice.

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Just iterate directly
Moshi‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Instead of doing an indexed for loop, just iterate over the characters directly with for c in x:. 38 bytes