unwanted indentation in console output

Question

In rstudio when I run this code:
cat(strrep("-", 5), "\n", strrep("-", 5))
The dashed line in the second row indented. How do I remove the indent?

I want this:
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I get this:
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Answer 1

the "indent" comes from a space that separates the entries of cat() so just add sep="" to the argument of cat(...)

cat(strrep("-", 5), "\n", strrep("-", 5),sep="")