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Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

fgetc

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fgetc — Gets 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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