added protection for negative ints, short circuit of empty string, short circuit of 0 and 1 multiplier. Improved speed using _strncpy and an optimized copy scheme.
added protection for negative ints, short circuit of empty string,
short circuit of 0 and 1 multiplier. Improved speed using
_strncpy and an optimized copy scheme.

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