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

A solution without pack function:

$a = "1";
var_dump($a); // string(4) "1"

function deleteBom($text)
{
    return preg_replace("/^\xEF\xBB\xBF/", '', $text);
}

var_dump(deleteBom($a)); // string(1) "1"