fgetc

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fgetcGets character from file pointer

Description

string fgetc ( resource $handle )

Gets a character from the given file pointer.

Parameters

handle

The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen() (and not yet closed by fclose()).

Return Values

Returns a string containing a single character read from the file pointed to by handle . Returns FALSE on EOF.

Warning

This function may return Boolean FALSE, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE, such as 0 or "". Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.

Examples

Example #1 A fgetc() example

<?php
$fp 
fopen('somefile.txt''r');
if (!
$fp) {
    echo 
'Could not open file somefile.txt';
}
while (
false !== ($char fgetc($fp))) {
    echo 
"$char\n";
}
?>

Notes

Note: This function is binary-safe.


    

 

 

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