How to remove multiple UTF-8 BOM sequences

Question

Using PHP5 (cgi) to output template files from the filesystem and having issues spitting out raw HTML.

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Answer 1

Another way to remove the BOM which is Unicode code point U+FEFF

$str = preg_replace('/\x{FEFF}/u', '', $file);