error: illegal character: '\ufeff' in java

Question

Got this error when compiled java code in ubuntu.

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error: illegal character: '\ufeff'

import java.net.*;
^

error: class, interface, or enum expected

import java.net.*;
        ^

Answer 1

As Jim Garrison pointed out, you probably have a Byte Order Marker (BOM) at the start of the file. Use an editor that can view all non-printable characters and remove it.

Alternatively, you can use sed to remove it:

sed '1s/^.//' infile >> outfile