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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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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oSb

nSuccess := 0

oSb := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

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

oSb:Shorten(3)

? oSb:GetAsString()

//  Output is: 0123456789ABC

oSb:destroy()