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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

StringDrop

StringDrop["string", n]
gives "string" with its first n characters dropped.

StringDrop["string", -n]
gives "string" with its last n characters dropped.

StringDrop["string", {n}]
gives "string" with its n

character dropped.

StringDrop["string", {m, n}]
gives "string" with characters m through n dropped.

StringDrop[{s₁, s₂, ...}, spec]
gives the list of results for each of the

Drop the first 4 characters from a string:

Use InputForm to show quotes:

Drop from the end of the string:

Drop characters 5 through 10:

Drop the first 4 characters from a string:

Use InputForm to show quotes:

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Drop from the end of the string:

Drop characters 5 through 10:

Drop character 3 from a string:

Drop every other character:

Drop the last 2 characters from several strings:

StringDrop works with special characters:

Newline (\n) counts as a single character:

StringDrop works like applying Drop to the list of characters:

StringReplacePart with an empty string can be used like StringDrop:

StringReplacePart can drop several sequences of characters at a time:

StringDrop operates on the raw characters in a string: