(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
fgetc — Gets character from file pointer
$stream): string|falseGets a character from the given file pointer.
streamThe file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen() (and not yet closed by fclose()).
Returns a string containing a single character read from the file pointed
to by stream. Returns false on EOF.
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.
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.