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.
