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Shorten a String in StringBuilder by N Chars

Demonstrates how to shorten a string contained in a Chilkat StringBuilder object by N chars.

Note: This example demonstrates the Shorten method which was added in Chilkat v9.5.0.87.

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bool success = false;

Chilkat.StringBuilder sb = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();

//  Load a file that contains this string:  0123456789ABCDEF
success = sb.LoadFile("qa_data/txt/remove_chars.txt","utf-8");

sb.Shorten(3);

Debug.WriteLine(sb.GetAsString());

//  Output is: 0123456789ABC