How to remove \ufeff from json string?

Question

PHP

There is a json array string
["\ufeff1788","1789","1790"]
. How would it be correct to remove \ufeff from it ?
I tried this, but it didn't help:
$data = preg_replace('/\x{feff}$/u', '', $data);

Answer 1

$data = str_replace('\ufeff', '', $data)

Answer 2

$result = trim($result, "\xEF\xBB\xBF");