From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 13:10:56 EST
At 13:14 03/02/18 -0800, Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
> That's a very long-winded way of writing it!
>
> How about this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -pi~ -0777
> # program to remove a leading UTF-8 BOM from a file
> # works both STDIN -> STDOUT and on the spot (with filename as
> argument)
> s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//s;
>
>which uses perl's -p, -i and -0 options to the same effect.
Yes, indeed, that's perfect. I was thinking about something
in that direction, but never got to check it out, sorry.
Regards, Martin.
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