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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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

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

        sb.shorten(3);

        System.out.println(sb.getAsString());

        // Output is: 0123456789ABC
    }
}