Removing BOM from UTF-8

[Gerard Seibert]

enjamin A'Lee wrote:

> From:
> "Benjamin A'Lee" <lists at benalee.co.uk>
>   To:
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>   Date:
> Today 03:29:34 pm
>    
>
> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:34 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it does not appear to be
> > working correctly. I named the file nobom.sh and put it in the same
> > directory as the files I want to convert. I also set the program
> > permission to 0755.
> >
> > typing the p[program name does nothing; I have to precede it with
> > 'perl'. Even then, it does not appear to work correctly. In the
> > following example, the file is parsed, but not converted.
>
> Sorry; try changing the first line to #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> > perl nobom.sh testfile
> >
> > Am I doing something incorrectly here?
>
> Try:
>
> cat testfile | nobom.sh
>
> Though the way you describe appears to work here:
>
> $ cat bom-testfile | hd
> 00000000  ef bb bf 23 20 42 4f 4d  20 74 65 73 74 20 66 69  |...# BOM
> test fi| 00000010  6c 65 0a                                        
>  |le.| 00000013
> $ bomkill.pl bom-testfile | hd
> 00000000  23 20 42 4f 4d 20 74 65  73 74 20 66 69 6c 65 0a  |# BOM
> test file.| 00000010
>
>
>     Ben

Something appears to be wrong here. First, the file will not run unless 
I precede it with 'perl'. I have another perl script in the same 
directory that runs just fine without any special prefixes. Also, the 
script does not seem to remove the BOM entity.

This is the script as I have it entered:

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

I have the file permissions set to 0755. Is there anything else that 
could be causing this to fail?

This is the first line of the file I am attempting to fix (well one of 
them).

Subject:

That is what appears when I use pico to view the file.

-- 
Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net

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