Java read file got a leading BOM [  ]

Question

I am reading a file containing keywords line by line and found a strange problem. I hope lines that following each other if their contents are the same, they should be handl

Answer 1

What is the encoding of the file?

The unseen char at the start of the file could be the Byte Order Mark

Saving with ANSI or UTF-8 without BOM can help highlight this for you.