in reply to Re^13: search and replace strings in different files in a directory
in thread search and replace strings in different files in a directory

I'd just remove the BOM manually before passing the string to Path::Tiny: 
my $directory = shift;
my $BOM = "\x..."; # Fill in the actual problematic string
$directory = s/$BOM//;

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