Repeat range of items multiple times in Google Sheets

Question

I want to repeat the range of items multiple times (Value provided).

e.g.

I have this in a sheet1!A

Detroit
Texas
Utah
California

Now I want to repeat them 3 times to get the output at Sheet2!A like:

Detroit
Texas
Utah
California 
Detroit
Texas
Utah
California 
Detroit
Texas
Utah
California

What should be the formula?

I got this formula:

https://www.excel-bytes.com/how-to-repeat-a-range-of-items-multiple-times-in-excel/

But it's not working in Google Sheets

The original formula worked fine for me - the only issue I had with it was that it had the wrong sort of double quotation marks and I had to edit those =IF(ISBLANK(INDIRECT(“Cities!A”&ROW(A2))),INDIRECT(“Repeat!A”&(ROWS($A$2:A2)-(COUNTA(Cities!A:A)-2))),Cities!A2) — Tom Sharpe
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player0 player0 · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-19T11:41:29

this will work only if you paste it into A5 of the same sheet and drag it down:

=IF(ISBLANK(INDIRECT(ROW(A1))),INDIRECT((ROWS($A$1:A4)-(COUNTA(A:A)-2))),A1)

otherwise, you can use:

=QUERY({Sheet1!A1:A4;Sheet1!A1:A4;Sheet1!A1:A4},"select *",0)

or:

=TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(REPT(JOIN(",",Sheet1!A1,Sheet1!A2,Sheet1!A3,Sheet1!A4&","),3),",",1))

or:

=TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(REPT(Sheet1!A1&","&Sheet1!A2&","&Sheet1!A3&","&Sheet1!A4&",",3),",",1))

or:

function REPEAT(range,amount,header) {
  var output = [];

  // check if range is cell
  if(typeof range == 'string') {
    for(var i=0; i<amount; i++) {
      output.push([range]);
    }
    return output;
  } else {
    // check if header is wanted
    var value;
    if(header == 1) {
      output.push(range[0]);
      value=header;
    } else if(header == "") {
      value=0;
    } else {
      value=0;
    }  
    for(var i=0; i<amount; i++) {
      for(var j=value, jLen=range.length; j<jLen; j++) {
        output.push(range[j]);
      }
    }    
    return output;
  }  
}

=REPEAT(Sheet1!A1:A4,3,0)

Repeat range of items multiple times in Google Sheets

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