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Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.87+

Shorten a String in StringBuilder by N Chars

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

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $sb = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;

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

$sb->Shorten(3);

print $sb->GetAsString(), "\n";

# Output is: 0123456789ABC