(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
Gets character from file pointer
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()).
Returns:
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
. Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.
Notes:
This function is binary-safe.
Examples:
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"; } ?>
See also:
fread() -
fopen() -
popen() -
fgets() -
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