fgetc
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
fgetc — Gets character from file pointer
Description
$handle
) : stringGets 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.
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.
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";
}
?>
See Also
- fread() - Binary-safe file read
- fopen() - Opens file or URL
- popen() - Opens process file pointer
- fsockopen() - Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection
- fgets() - Gets line from file pointer
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