Remove no. of character

Hi all,
i want to delete 50 character from a string.
which function shuld i use to delete 50 character from a string

This pseudo-code should give you a good start:
UPDATE <TABLE>
SET     <COLUMN NAME> = SUBSTR
                                <COLUMN NAME>
                        ,       1
                        ,       LENGTH(<COLUMN NAME>) - 50
WHERE   <CONDITIONS>;

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-- Sergiusz

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hi all...
i have a column in a table in which some of the datas contain a newline character at their last.
i need to remove those newline characters.
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plss help me...
thanks in advance..

thanks for ur reply...
i got your point..but here what you have done is....u have inserted a particular character set in between 'abcd' and 'xyz' and afetr that just replaced those character set by null....
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