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backend/node_modules/strip-bom/index.js

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+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = string => {
+	if (typeof string !== 'string') {
+		throw new TypeError(`Expected a string, got ${typeof string}`);
+	}
+
+	// Catches EFBBBF (UTF-8 BOM) because the buffer-to-string
+	// conversion translates it to FEFF (UTF-16 BOM)
+	if (string.charCodeAt(0) === 0xFEFF) {
+		return string.slice(1);
+	}
+
+	return string;
+};