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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 { StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

function chilkatExample() {
  const sb = new StringBuilder();

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

  sb.shorten(3);

  console.log(sb.getAsString());

  // Output is: 0123456789ABC
}