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Re^3: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Feb 13, 2007 at 20:48 UTC ( [id://599778]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
in thread UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark

my $octets = encode("utf8", $line); $octets =~ s/^\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}//; $line = decode("utf8", $octets);

is the same thing as

my $BOM = decode("utf8", "\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}"); $line =~ s/^$BOM//;

is the same thing as

my $BOM = chr(0xFEFF); $line =~ s/^$BOM//;

is the same thing as

$line =~ s/^\x{FEFF}//;

which is what I gave you. Much simpler!

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Re^4: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
by muba (Priest) on Feb 13, 2007 at 21:01 UTC

    Meh. Indeed, I didn't realise that. Thank you!

Re^4: UTF-8 text files with Byte Order Mark
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 30, 2011 at 18:30 UTC
    Thank you!!! This saved me a lot of trouble. I am also trying to strip out these UTF-8 byte order mark characters, which google docs puts in by default to downloaded text files. By the way I found that \x{FEFF} was not the same as \x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}

      By the way I found that \x{FEFF} was not the same as \x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}

      Yeah, "\x{ef}\x{bb}\x{bf}" is the UTF-8 encoding of the BOM / U+FEFF / "\x{FEFF}".

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