Java Question: Returning multiple times

I'm a beginner in Java and was wondering if there's a way I could return something like a String multiple times without having to write.

return string+string+string+string;

Thanks

 

Assuming you meant javascript and not java, since that's where you posted (They are two completely unrelated languages that unfortunately share a name thanks to a back-room deal between Sun and Nyetscape almost a decade and a half ago)...

... and .. no. There's no built in method for that. You could use a FOR loop and another variable to build the return result though, but that's an ugly solution at best in terms of speed and memory use -- though if I had a LOT of them added together like that, I'd consider it.

If there were dozens used in multiple places, I'd make my own function for that.

function replicateString(inString,count) {
  var newString='';
  while (count-- > 0) newString+=inString;
  return newString;
}

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Its not possible to have multiple returns in Java. But its possible to return multiple items using a wrapper object.
You can create a wrapper object which has the String as data members, u can then set values for each member and return the object.
Here's a sample wrapper class with a argument constructor.

class MyStringWrapper {
    String item1;
    String item2;
    String item3;

    public MyStringWrapper(String item1, String item2, String item3) {
          this.item1 = item1;
          this.item2 = item2;
          this.item3 = item3;
    }
}

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You can use this as follows in your code:

MyStringWrapper wrapperObject = new MyStringWrapper(String1, String2, String3);
return wrapperObject;

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The object members can then be accessed as 'wrapperObject.item1'