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-// truncate.java
-// -----------------------
-// part of YaCy
-// (C) by Michael Peter Christen; mc@anomic.de
-// first published on http://www.anomic.de
-// Frankfurt, Germany, 2004
-//
-// This File is contributed by Marc Nause
-//
-// $LastChangedDate: 2007-07-27  $
-// $LastChangedRevision: 4007 $
-// $LastChangedBy: low012 $
-//
-// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-// the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-// (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-// GNU General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-// along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-// Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
-//
-// Using this software in any meaning (reading, learning, copying, compiling,
-// running) means that you agree that the Author(s) is (are) not responsible
-// for cost, loss of data or any harm that may be caused directly or indirectly
-// by usage of this softare or this documentation. The usage of this software
-// is on your own risk. The installation and usage (starting/running) of this
-// software may allow other people or application to access your computer and
-// any attached devices and is highly dependent on the configuration of the
-// software which must be done by the user of the software; the author(s) is
-// (are) also not responsible for proper configuration and usage of the
-// software, even if provoked by documentation provided together with
-// the software.
-//
-// Any changes to this file according to the GPL as documented in the file
-// gpl.txt aside this file in the shipment you received can be done to the
-// lines that follows this copyright notice here, but changes must not be
-// done inside the copyright notive above. A re-distribution must contain
-// the intact and unchanged copyright notice.
-// Contributions and changes to the program code must be marked as such.
-
-
-/* This program is a replacement of the ${variable#pattern} shell command of
-   bash. This program does _not_ understand regular expressions! 
-   It is needed for operating systems which standard shell does not understand
-   the command. Take a look at startYACY.sh if you want to know where it is used. 
-*/
-public final class truncate {
-
-    public static void main (String[] args) {
-
-        if (args.length == 2) {
-
-            if(args[0].startsWith(args[1])) {
-                System.out.println(args[0].substring(args[1].length()));
-            }
-
-        }
-
-    }
-
-} 
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