Problem: Create a String containing n repetitions of a String s.
The trivial approach would be repeatedly concatenating the String
final int n = ...
final String s = ...
String result = "";
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
result += s;
}
This creates n new string instances containing 1 to n repetitions of s resulting in a runtime of O(s.length() * n²) = O(s.length() * (1+2+...+(n-1)+n)).
To avoid this StringBuilder should be used, which allows creating the String in O(s.length() * n) instead:
final int n = ...
final String s = ...
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
builder.append(s);
}
String result = builder.toString();