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

The Apache Commons IO Library's BOMInputStream has already been mentioned by @rescdsk, but I did not see it mention how to get an InputStream without the BOM.

Here's how I did it in Scala.

 import java.io._
 val file = new File(path_to_xml_file_with_BOM)
 val fileInpStream = new FileInputStream(file)   
 val bomIn = new BOMInputStream(fileInpStream, 
         false); // false means don't include BOM