• 0

How to Delete/Show invisible/hidden characters in code


You do not see the Byte Order Marks (BOM) such as #FEFF or #FFFE in the text editor. The characters are always the very first in a text file. You might see the following error from your static analysis tool Weird number of spaces at line-start. You can solve such errors by the following steps:
 - Open the file in vim text editor and run the following commands
 - :set nobomb
 - :wq