fgetc
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.
See also fread(), fopen(), popen(), fsockopen(), and fgets().
