Visual FoxPro

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.

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loSb

lnSuccess = 0

loSb = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

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

loSb.Shorten(3)

? loSb.GetAsString()

* Output is: 0123456789ABC

RELEASE loSb