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gzgetc

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

gzgetc — Get character from gz-file pointer

string gzgetc ( resource $zp )

Returns a string containing a single (uncompressed) character read from the given gz-file pointer.

zp: The gz-file pointer. It must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by gzopen().

The uncompressed character or FALSE on EOF (unlike gzeof()).

Example #1 gzgetc() example


<?php

$gz = gzopen('somefile.gz', 'r');

while (!gzeof($gz)) {

  echo gzgetc($gz);

}

gzclose($gz);

?>