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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)

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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 (1 comment)
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Ruby, 34 29 bytes

->s,n{s.chars.map{_1*n}*""}

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Haskell, 18 bytes

(.replicate).(>>=)

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Rockstar, 90 bytes

listen to S
split S
listen to N
O's""
while S
roll S into C
let C be*N-0
let O be+C

say O

Try it here - code will need to be pasted in; s goes on the first line of input (leave blank for the empty string) and n goes on the second line.

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APL (Dyalog Unicode), 1 byte

/

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/ is called Replicate.

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JavaScript, 36 bytes

s=>n=>s.replace(/./g,`$&`.repeat(n))

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Japt -m, 2 bytes 

pV

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pV     :Implicit map of first input string
p      :Repeat
 V     :Second input times
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C (gcc), 56 bytes

i;f(s,n)char*s,n;{for(;*s;s++)for(i=n;i--;putchar(*s));}

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My attempt at recursion ended up at 61 bytes:

o;f(s,n)char*s,n;{for(o=n;*s&&n--;putchar(*s));*s&&f(++s,o);}

I still think there's probably a more elegant way to solve both loops with recursion, but I can't spot it...

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jq, 32 27 bytes

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.n as$n|.s/""|map(.*$n)|add

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18 bytes: [Try it online!](https://tio.run/##yyr8/z9aQ69YX0lJMzpWSy8vtiYxJeX//2ouBQWlYiUrJY/UnJx8hfD8... (1 comment)
you can use `add` in place of join. (1 comment)
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Jelly, 1 byte

x

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x is Jelly's replicate atom. Since Jelly is inspired by languages like J, APL, etc, it is no surprise that is has an atom for a fairly important function.

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Python 3, 34 bytes

lambda a,b:''.join(b*i for i in a)

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shortC, 40 37 bytes

i;f(C*s,In){O;*s;s++)Oi=n;i--;P*s));}

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A shortC conversion of @Lundin's C (gcc) implementation.

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J, 1 byte

#

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The copy verb. It works the exact same as APL and Jelly's replicate.

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Ruby, 23 bytes

->{_1.gsub /./,'\0'*_2}

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