C – repeat a string for a specific number of times in anothervariable

I want to repeat a string – for example hello – for a specific number of imes – for example 3 times -, but it doesnt work 🙂 The example should look like this: hellohellohello, but I get no output or i get HHHHHHHHHHH…

here is my code:

char *repeat_str(size_t count, char *src) {
  int length = strlen(src);
  int z = length;
  char *ausgabe = calloc((length*(count+1)), sizeof(char));
  for(int i = 0; i<=((int) count);i++){
    for(int j =0; j< length; j++){
      ausgabe[i+j+z] = src[j];
  }
  z=z*2;
  }
  //printf("%s\n", ausgabe);
  return(ausgabe);
}

If i remove the ‘z’ in the brackets of ‘ausgabe’, i get the output HHHHHHHH%, with the z I just get no output. Could bdy pls help me change this behavoiur – and more important, understant why it does that?

>Solution :

As you are always referring *src, which is fixed to the first letter of src,
the result looks like repeating it. Would you please try instead:

char *repeat_str(size_t count, char *src) {
    int length = strlen(src);
    char *ausgabe = calloc(length * count + 1, sizeof(char));
    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < length; j++) {
            ausgabe[i * length + j] = src[j];
        }
    }
    //printf("%s\n", ausgabe);
    return ausgabe;
}