Simple way to create a big string of blanks?

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

Is there an easy way to create a large string of blanks? Say, 2500 or more long? I don't want it to involve 2500 reallocations like concatenation. I'm looking for something short of making a CFunction to do it.

 

I was trying something like this, but the precision and width are too long:

 

  sFmt = string.format( "%%-%d.%ds", nSkip, nSkip )
  return string.format( sFmt, " " )

Thanks,

 

Michael