NAME

String::BOM - simple utilities to check for a BOM and strip a BOM

VERSION

This document describes String::BOM version 0.3

SYNOPSIS

    use String::BOM qw(string_has_bom);
    
    if (my $bom = string_has_bom($string)) {
        print "According to the string's BOM it is '$bom'\n";
    }

DESCRIPTION

See if a string or file has a BOM. Remove the BOM from a string or file.

You [c|sh]ould use PPI to do this is you are looking at a perl file

Something like this modified PPI sysnopsis example should detect and remove a BOM:

    use PPI;
    
    my $Document = PPI::Document->new('Module.pm');

    # Does it contain a BOM?
    if ( $Document->find_any('PPI::Token::BOM') ) {
        print "Module contains BOM!!\n";
        $Document->prune('PPI::Token::BOM');
        $Document->save('Module.pm.bom_free');
    }

INTERFACE

All of these functions can be imported.

string_has_bom()

Takes a string and returns true (the type of BOM it is) if there is a BOM.

strip_bom_from_string()

Takes a string and returns a version with the BOM, if any, removed.

file_has_bom()

Takes a path and returns true (the type of BOM it is) if there is a BOM.

Check $! for file operation failure when it returns false.

strip_bom_from_file()

Takes a path and removes the BOM, if any, from it.

Check $! for file operation failure when it returns false.

A second argument with a true value will make it leave the original document on the file system with a .bak extension added.

Note: If the file had no BOM and was thus not edited then there is no .bak file.

DOM TYPES

The DOM data is the same as PPI::Token::BOM which are taken from http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM.

DIAGNOSTICS

String::BOM throws no warnings or errors

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

String::BOM requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-string-bom@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

SEE ALSO

PPI, File::Bom

File::Bom doesn't really do what this module does and has other utility functions that we don't need for the purposes of this module.

AUTHOR

Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2010, Daniel Muey <http://drmuey.com/cpan_contact.pl>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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cpanm String::BOM

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install String::BOM