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Java read file got a leading BOM [  ]
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If I write this code, I get this as output --> This first: 
and then the other lines
try {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
"myFile.txt"));
String line;
while (line = br.readLine() != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
br.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
How can I avoid it?
You are getting the characters  on the first line because this sequence is the UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM). If a text file begins with a BOM, it's likely it was generated by a Windows program like Notepad.
To solve your problem, we choose to read the file explicitly as UTF-8, instead of whatever default system character encoding (US-ASCII, etc.):
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream("myFile.txt"),
"UTF-8"));
Then in UTF-8, the byte sequence  decodes to one character, which is U+FEFF. This character is optional - a legal UTF-8 file may or may not begin with it. So we will skip the first character only if it's U+FEFF:
in.mark(1);
if (in.read() != 0xFEFF)
in.reset();
And now you can continue with the rest of your code.
The problem could be in encoding used.
try this:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream("yourfile"), "UTF-8"));