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cgnieder wrote:

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\newcommand*\saybla[1]{%
  \ifnum#1<0 \ERROR\fi
  \ifnum#1=1
    bla%
  \else
    bla \saybla{\numexpr#1-1}%
  \fi
}

That's exactly what I was looking for - thanks alot!

Thanks for the quick reply. I think my question was misunderstood - I'm familiar with both the ifthen package and loops. What I can't work out is how to define an integer and modify it (substracting one in this case). I'd be happy if I for instance could do this:

\newcommand{\oneless}[1]{
#1 - 1 ...

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm familiar with both loops and conditional statements - I just wrote my problem in pseudocode for readability - perhabs a bit unclear.
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Hi there

Does anybody know of a way to declare and manipulate variables in LaTeX in a way similar to a 'real' programming language?
Concretely, let's say I want to define a command \saybla{n} that prints 'bla' n times. What I'd like to write in my preamble is (in pseudocode) something like ...