Repeat a string in multiple cells at once within an array

Hi. This is likely very simple, but I can't figure it out.

I'm trying to put a character string into a multiple cells in an array. As the code below shows, I am attempting to put 'value' in cells 1 to 5 in the first column of a cell array. But this way I'm writing it does not work. Thanks in advance.

curString =  'value'
data{[1:5],1} = strcat(curString)

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

clear data
curString =  {'value'}
data(1:5,1) = curString