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Background

This is a standard textbook example to demonstrate for loops.

This is one of the first programs I learnt when I started learning programming ~10 years ago.

Task

You are to print this exact text:

**********
**********
**********
**********
**********
**********
**********
**********
**********
**********

Specs

  • You may have extra trailing newlines.
  • You may have extra trailing spaces (U+0020) at the end of each line, including the extra trailing newlines.

Scoring

This is . Shortest answer in bytes wins.

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    \$\begingroup\$ @DylanMeeus "You are to print this exact text:" \$\endgroup\$
    – Leaky Nun
    Aug 4, 2016 at 12:56
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    \$\begingroup\$ @DylanMeeus Since that is to do with the dev tools hiding repeated console outputs, and isn't native to JavaScript consoles as a whole and is not in the JavaScript spec - as well as the fact that feature can be turned off - i think it should be acceptable. Not all browsers will collapse it like that. \$\endgroup\$
    – James T
    Aug 4, 2016 at 12:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ @LeakyNun Leaderboard snippet please! \$\endgroup\$
    – anna328p
    Aug 4, 2016 at 22:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ One of the most interesting things about this challange is that depending on your language ********** can be shorter then a loop. Makes me wonder when it's better for a given language to switch between 1 or 2 loops. \$\endgroup\$
    – dwana
    Aug 5, 2016 at 9:14
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    \$\begingroup\$ you say trailing new lines are acceptable. Are leading newlines acceptable too? \$\endgroup\$
    – Albert Renshaw
    Feb 10, 2017 at 2:34

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Java, 46 bytes

$->System.out.print("**********\n".repeat(10))

Try it online!

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Python 3 (23 bytes)

print(('*'*10+'\n')*10)
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  • \$\begingroup\$ 23 bytes - I believe '\n' is two bytes of code, but if you measured with len it will have said 22. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jonathan Allan
    Aug 7, 2016 at 6:16
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HTML, 136 bytes

**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********<br>**********
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    \$\begingroup\$ You can use <pre> \$\endgroup\$
    – Leaky Nun
    Aug 5, 2016 at 16:45
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    \$\begingroup\$ This answer is valid and allowed, but it's also extremely boring and unimaginative. \$\endgroup\$
    – DJMcMayhem
    Aug 5, 2016 at 17:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ Ok, Can I post it in Markdown? \$\endgroup\$
    – Skxrda
    Aug 5, 2016 at 17:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ You can easily get this to 114 bytes with <pre> followed by the 109-byte text... \$\endgroup\$
    – Timtech
    Aug 27, 2016 at 21:43
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    \$\begingroup\$ I was hoping to join in on this one but unfortunately do not have the reputation for here yet. I'm not sure if this is an applicable method, but using html/emmet you can get this down to 20 bytes. ({**********}+br)*10 Alternatively p{**********}*10 is 16 bytes. New user to this site, so I'm unsure if the tab character counts. \$\endgroup\$
    – N.J.Dawson
    Sep 1, 2016 at 16:12
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