fgetc

(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() -

fsockopen() -

fgets() -

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2016-02-24 15:56:46
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