Looping and adding for repeat a string problem

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
I feel like I’ve been running into this issue with other problems. When i create a for loop such as I this, I assume that it’ll add “str” to “newstr” three times over because I’ve created the loop but it only adds it once. Can someone help em identify where I’m going wrong?

Your code so far


function repeatStringNumTimes(str, num) {
var newstr = ''
for (var i = 0; i < num; i++) {
  return newstr += str
};
}

console.log(repeatStringNumTimes("abc", 3));

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Challenge: Repeat a String Repeat a String

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a return statement stops the function, so once a return statement is executed the function has an output and does nothing else

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