JavaScript RangeError – Repeat count must be less than infinity

Last Updated : 24 Jan, 2023

This JavaScript exception repeat count must be less than infinity occurs if the passed argument of String.prototype.repeat() method is infinity.

Output message:

RangeError: argument out of range (Edge)
RangeError: repeat count must be less than infinity and not 
            overflow maximum string size (Firefox)
RangeError: Invalid count value (Chrome)

Error Type:

RangeError

Cause of the error: The count parameter of the String.prototype.repeat() method passed is either less than 0 or greater than infinity.

Example 1: In this example, the parameter passed is 4, So the error has not occurred.

HTML

<body style="text-align: center;"> 
    <h1 style="color: green;"> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
  
    <p> 
        JavaScript RangeError 
        Repeat count must be less than infinity 
    </p> 
  
    <button onclick="Geeks();"> 
        click here 
    </button> 
  
    <p id="GFG_DOWN"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        var el_down = document.getElementById("GFG_DOWN"); 
          
        function Geeks() { 
            try { 
                "GFG".repeat(4); 
                el_down.innerHTML = "'Repeat count " + 
                  "must be less than infinity' " + 
                  "error has not occurred"; 
            } catch (e) { 
                el_down.innerHTML = "'Repeat count " + 
                  "must be less than infinity' " +  
                  "error has occurred"; 
            } 
        } 
    </script> 
</body>

Output:

JavaScript RangeError - Repeat count must be less than infinity

Example 2: In this example, the parameter passed is 2³², So the error has occurred,

HTML

<body style="text-align: center;"> 
    <h1 style="color: green;"> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
  
    <p> 
        JavaScript RangeError 
        Repeat count must be less than infinity 
    </p> 
  
    <button onclick="Geeks();"> 
        click here 
    </button> 
  
    <p id="GFG_DOWN"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        var el_down = document.getElementById("GFG_DOWN"); 
        function Geeks() { 
            try { 
                "GFG".repeat(2 ** 32); 
                el_down.innerHTML = "'Repeat count " + 
                  "must be less than infinity' " +  
                  "error has not occurred"; 
            } catch (e) { 
                el_down.innerHTML = "'Repeat count " + 
                  "must be less than infinity' " +  
                  "error has occurred"; 
            } 
        } 
    </script> 
</body>