On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:42, Leszek Stachowski <shazarre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > is there any way to detect BOM in a file? I'm writing a parser which outputs > a number line if there's an error in it and its content. Every time it > parser a file saved in UTF-8 with BOM it outputs those three magic letters. > Can I pre-check for it and skip it? Or convert somehow? > > Greetings, > Leszek Stachowski The UTF-8 byte order mark is represented by the hexadecimal character sequence EF BB BF. You can use something like this to detect a BOM: if (substr($source, 0, 3) == pack('CCC', 0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF)) { // has bom } -- Daniel Egeberg -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php