ric, indicating the number of characters that have to be removed from the beginning of <code>x</code></p></dd>

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    <h2 id="value">Value<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#value"></a></h2>
    

<p>character object of the same length as <code>x</code>.
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