Hello AnishaM,

A quick search of turns up the module String::BOM which has a strip_bom_from_string function:

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use String::BOM qw( strip_bom_from_string );

my $string = 'ÿþThe quick brown fox jumped over the unfortunate dog.';
print ">$string<\n";
$string = strip_bom_from_string($string);
print ">$string<\n";

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Output:

22:35 >perl 1697_SoPW.pl
>ÿþThe quick brown fox jumped over the unfortunate dog.<
>The quick brown fox jumped over the unfortunate dog.<

22:35 >

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Note that this will remove the BOM from the beginning of the string only — which is the only place a BOM is supposed to occur within a text stream (see Byte order mark).

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Remove ÿþ from a string by Athanasius
in thread Remove ÿþ from a string by AnishaM

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