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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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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$sb = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();

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

$sb->Shorten(3);

print $sb->getAsString() . "\r\n";

# Output is: 0123456789ABC