Why would this return in multiple lines?

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I checked the solution and seen the correct way of writing this recursively, but I’m curious why this returns in multiple lines. Is there a way to put everything into one?

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function repeatStringNumTimes(str, num) {
if (num <= 0) return []
else if (num === 1) console.log(str)
else console.log(str) + repeatStringNumTimes(str, num - 1)
}

repeatStringNumTimes("abc", 3);

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Challenge: Repeat a String Repeat a String

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It repeats multiple lines because every time console.log is called, it creates a new line. Console.log is called 3 times.
If you want to create one line, try to concatenate your strings to one var, and only log once at the end.
So where you’d write the console.log now, it would be something like var myString = myString + “abc”

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Thanks, for the clarification, cool insight!