request for printing patterns with for loops tutorial

[fistfullofnails]

Aren't you guys making this all too complicated for such a simple task and question?

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For i = 0 To 20

    Print Space$(40 - i); String$(i * 2 + 1, "*")

Next

Three simple lines of code.  That's all you need.  Nothing fancy.  Nothing complex.  Just a FOR statement, a PRINT statement, and a NEXT.

I get this and can back engineer it for the most part to figure out what's going on.  So I notice if I place anything greater than a single character in place of the asterik, the String$ command seems to only print out the very first character.  For example if I entered "Car" in place of "*", then it would just print out the C character every time, instead of the word Car.  Am I correct on that?