Tip #564 Remove columns from text
'colrm' is a column removal filter.If only one parameter is specified, the characters of each line will be removed starting from that specified column number, if called with two parameters (range of character position to remove) the columns/characters from character position x to character position y will be removed.
Some examples:
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