Read the next character from a stream.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <stdio.h>

int fgetc(FILE *stream);

Parameters for this facility are:

stream

FILE *

A pointer to a FILE stream

The fgetc() function reads the next character from stream and advances its file position indicator.

fgetc() returns the character as an int. If the end-of-file has been reached, fgetc() returns EOF.

If the file is opened in update mode (+) a file cannot be read from and then written to without repositioning the file using one of the file positioning functions (fseek(), fsetpos(), or rewind()) unless the last read or write reached the end-of-file.

"Wide Character and Byte Character Stream Orientation"

"getc"

"getchar"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
	FILE *f;
	char filename[80], c;

	// get a filename from the user	
	printf("Enter a filename to read.\n");
	gets(filename);

	// open the file for input
	if (( f = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL) {
		printf("Can't open %s.\n", filename);
		exit(1);
	}

	// read the file one character at a time until
	// end-of-file is reached
	while ( (c = fgetc(f)) != EOF)
		putchar(c);			// print the character

	// close the file
	fclose(f);

	return 0;
}