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php fgetc function ​

fgetc
(PHP 4, PHP 5)

fgetc - Get characters 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 value
Returns a string containing a single character read from the file and processed by. Returns FALSE for EOF analysis.

Warning
This function may return a boolean error, and may also return a non-boolean value that evaluates to false, such as 0 or " ". Please read the Boolean section carefully for more information. Use the === operator to test the return value of this function.

Example

Example #1 Example of fgetc()

$fp = fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');
if (!$fp) {
echo 'Could not open file somefile.txt';
}
while (false !== ($char = fgetc($fp))) {
echo "$charn";
}
?>