Gets character from file pointer (original) (raw)

fgetc

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

fgetc — Gets character from file pointer

Description

fgetc ( resource $handle ) : string

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() orfsockopen() (and not yet closed byfclose()).

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. 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.

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