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fgetc

(PHP 3, PHP 4 )

fgetc -- Gets character from file pointer

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(), popen(), or fsockopen().

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"; } ?>

Note: This function is binary-safe.

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