Using an integer to add a number of characters to a string

09kingarthur

I'm adding a loading screen to a game that shows what is happening while the screen is visible via text that says things like "Loading scene..." and "Generating map...". I want the periods after the loading text to show based on a variable that increases while the loading screen is visible; modulo 3.
The thing I need help with here is taking the number variable and adding that many periods to the end of the string. Does anybody know how to do this?

kuligs2

09kingarthur

var load_string = "Loading scene.."
var current_num = 0

func increase_num(rate:int):

    current_num +=rate
    load_string += str(current_num)

Zini

var dot = "."
var load_string = "Loading scene " + dot.repeat(count/3)

09kingarthur

Zini This works perfectly, thank you!