Description
string
fgetc ( resource handle )
Returns a string containing a single character read from the
file pointed to by handle.
Returns FALSE on EOF.
The file pointer must be valid, and must point to
a file successfully opened by fopen() or
fsockopen() (and not yet closed by
fclose()).
| 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. |
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";
}
?>
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Note: This function is
binary-safe.
See also fread(), fopen(),
popen(), fsockopen(), and
fgets().
