Byte order mark screws up file reading in Java

Question

I\'m trying to read CSV files using Java. Some of the files may have a byte order mark in the beginning, but not all. When present, the byte order gets read along with the r

Answer 1

To simply remove the BOM characters from your file, I recomend using Apache Common IO

public BOMInputStream(InputStream delegate,
              boolean include)
Constructs a new BOM InputStream that detects a a ByteOrderMark.UTF_8 and optionally includes it.
Parameters:
delegate - the InputStream to delegate to
include - true to include the UTF-8 BOM or false to exclude it

Set include to false and your BOM characters will be excluded.