perlquestion mwhiting <p>Hi Monks. I have a script on a webserver where I need to detect the presence or absence of a BOM from the start of a datafile. I have an existing subroutine that opens the file and reads the first record just to find out how many fields it has, and I will be adding it there. <p>What's an easy way of doing this? I am wondering if File::BOM is the way to go, and from cpan.org I see it has this function: <code>use File::BOM open_bom(FH, $file) $encoding = get_encoding_from_filehandle(FH) </code> <p>I know some people say not to bother with checking, but in this case I need to know for the purposes of later code. <p>Thanks!