Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:34:44 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing BOM from UTF-8 Message-ID: <200602181435.07066.gerard@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <1140283470.17023.7.camel@ariadne.benalee.co.uk> References: <20060218111849.15E6.GERARD@seibercom.net> <1140283470.17023.7.camel@ariadne.benalee.co.uk>
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--nextPart6599138.EOb0c16ySJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:28 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > It has been suggested that a script could be written to eliminate > > the BOM from a file(s). My script writing skills suck. I have been > > unable to locate one using Google, so I was hoping that someone > > might know where I could either locate such a program, or perhaps > > give me an idea on how to script one. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > @file=3D<>; > $file[0] =3D~ s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//; > print(@file); > > That'll read a file from stdin, remove the BOM from the beginning of > the first line if it's present, and print it to stdout. > > Hope it helps. > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Ben > > -- > Termisoc Tech Officer: <http://termisoc.org/>; > My Homepage: <http://benalee.co.uk/>; > "People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of > thought which they have but seldom use." -- S=C3=B8ren Kierkegaard Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it does not appear to be working=20 correctly. I named the file nobom.sh and put it in the same directory=20 as the files I want to convert. I also set the program permission to=20 0755. typing the p[program name does nothing; I have to precede it with=20 'perl'. Even then, it does not appear to work correctly. In the=20 following example, the file is parsed, but not converted. perl nobom.sh testfile Am I doing something incorrectly here? Thanks! =2D-=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net PGP: http://www.seibercom.net/sig/gerard.asc --nextPart6599138.EOb0c16ySJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD93bqchM2dIO+3uMRArDTAJ45txd1ts0k2YaguTrxVGfC9eG1uwCfdgUj DiJq15exHgDmjK6Wj4rQvnE= =Nprd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6599138.EOb0c16ySJ--
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