Removing BOM from UTF-8

[Benjamin A'Lee]

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:28 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> It has been suggested that a script could be written to eliminate the
> BOM from a file(s). My script writing skills suck. I have been unable to
> locate one using Google, so I was hoping that someone might know where I
> could either locate such a program, or perhaps give me an idea on how to
> script one.

#!/usr/bin/perl
@file=<>;
$file[0] =~ s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//;
print(@file);

That'll read a file from stdin, remove the BOM from the beginning of the
first line if it's present, and print it to stdout.

Hope it helps.

    Ben

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