Remove UTF-8 BOM

Remove a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from the beginning of a string.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/string-remove-utf8-bom

Usage

var removeUTF8BOM = require( '@stdlib/string-remove-utf8-bom' );

removeUTF8BOM( str )

Removes a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from the beginning of a string.

var str = removeUTF8BOM( '\ufeffbeep' );
// returns 'beep'

Examples

var removeUTF8BOM = require( '@stdlib/string-remove-utf8-bom' );

var str = removeUTF8BOM( '\ufeffbeep' );
// returns 'beep'

str = removeUTF8BOM( 'boop\ufeff' );
// returns 'boop\ufeff'

str = removeUTF8BOM( 'be\ufeffbop' );
// returns 'be\ufeffbop'

str = removeUTF8BOM( 'foobar' );
// returns 'foobar'

See Also

• @stdlib/string-remove-utf8-bom-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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