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Removing Byte Order Marks

Stefan Baumgartner

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One special version of Excel for instance still adds those nasty buggers.

$str = file_get_contents("input_file_with_bom.csv");

$str = str_replace("\xEF\xBB\xBF","",$str);

file_put_contents("output_file_without_bom.csv");

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