On ven, 2005-04-22 at 03:47 -0700, Ranjan K. Baisak wrote:
> In a reporting application, I need to print number of
> chars e.g. '.'s depending upon some numeric variable.
> SO it would be a kind of array of chars.

Isn't a string a kind of array of chars ;-) ???

> Any function available for the same?

what about substring()?

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116#function-substring

<xsl:value-of select="substring('...................................',
1, $myLength)"/> should do the trick!

Eric

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