Printing a character times a variable

Question

I have a question about that I would greatly appreciate if someone with knowledge could answer. In C, is it valid to print a character times a variable?

For example (spaces and stories are both integers):

printf(" " * spaces);

or

printf("#" * stories);

In case anyone is confused, in the first printf, I was trying print out multiple spaces. I've included the CS50 library but I still keep getting errors about these lines. Do they need to be written a different way or is this method simply invalid?

Answer 1

Nope, can't do it that way.

If you want to print multiple copies of a char based on a var's value, think for loop.

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