in reply to help needed in File::Bom

If you read the docs for File::BOM, you'll see that it exports nothing by default.

Therefore, you need to specify the routine/s that you want in your use line; either:

use File::BOM qw( :all );
or..
use File::BOM qw( get_encoding_from_filehandle );

Cheers,
Darren :)

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Re^2: help needed in File::Bom
by uva (Sexton) on Apr 11, 2006 at 15:54 UTC
    thanks for everyone replied me..
    Thaats working fine . but i couldnot find the no of bytes occupied by the BOM.any one help me in that.

      If you had read the docs as has already been suggested:

      After calling, the handle will be set to read at a point after the BOM (or at the beginning of the file if no BOM was found)

      So all you need to do is find out what your current position in the file is after you get the encoding:

      . . . ($encoding, $spillage) = get_encoding_from_filehandle(HANDLE); $bom_length = tell HANDLE; . . .

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