Length of String as extension of String

Question

I know that there will be lots of pointers to duplicates but this worked before I updated to xcode 6.3 and now it has a problem with it.

The script:

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Answer 1

var str = "Hello, playground"

extension String {
    func removeCharsFromEnd(n:Int) -> String {
        return substringWithRange(Range(start: startIndex, end: advance(startIndex, count(self) < n ? 0 : count(self)-n )))
    }
}

"Hello, playground".removeCharsFromEnd(3)  // "Hello, playgro"
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