fgetc in PHP

fgetc — Gets character from file pointer
Syntax:

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 values: Returns a string containing a single character read from the file pointed to by handle. Returns FALSE on EOF.

Warning
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.