Non-visible characters in first line of an ascii file

[ssimop]

When I open a sequential ascii file using ReadLine, I experienced that the first line's string is proceeded by two non-visble characters (namely hex BB BF). Is there any simple way to get rid of these characters? Let me add that you may trace these characters if you use a get to string with starting value 1 (not 0). Any advice is welcome.

Function ReadSeqFile

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str sRec="$my qm$\Files\Test_Seq.txt"
File f.Open(sRec "r")
str s
f.ReadLine(s)
out s
str sg.get(s 0 3)
out sg
sg.get(s 1 3)
out sg
sg.get(s 2 3)
out sg
sg.get(s 5 3)
out sg

[Gintaras]

File.Open and other QM functions don't remove byte-order-mark (BOM).

Macro Macro2757

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if(s.beg("[0xef][0xbb][0xbf]"))
,out "UTF-8"
,s.remove(0 3)
out s

[ssimop]

Many thanks indeed!