st: Utility to reduce vector length by a given number of elements

[Rachel <academicgirl@gmail.com>]

Is there a Stata (rather than Mata) utility that will remove the last
n elements of a vector?  Is there some way of doing this without
explicitly without knowing (or evaluating) the length of the vector?

Thanks,
Rachel
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