fgetc

fgetc

Read a Character from a File

Portability: ISO/ANSI C conforming, UNIX compatible

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
IMPLEMENTATION
EXAMPLE
RELATED FUNCTIONS
SEE ALSO

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>

int fgetc(FILE *f);

DESCRIPTION

fgetc reads a single character from the stream associated with the FILE object addressed by f and returns the character.

RETURN VALUE

fgetc returns the next input character, or EOF if no character can be read.

IMPLEMENTATION

fgetc is implemented by an actual function call, not a built-in function, so it is slower than getc . (However, less code is generated.)

EXAMPLE

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
   FILE *fp;
   int c,count;
   count = 0;
                                            
   fp = fopen("tso:MYFILE", "rb");          /* Open MYFILE to read. */
   while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF)           /* Count characters.    */
      ++count;

   printf("Number of characters in the file "tso:MYFILE": %d", count);
   fclose(fp);
}

RELATED FUNCTIONS

getc , getchar , ungetc