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 getc(FILE *stream);

Parameters for this facility are:

stream

FILE *

A pointer to a FILE stream

The getc() function reads the next character from stream, advances the file position indicator, and returns the character as an int value. Unlike the fgetc() function, getc() is implemented as a macro.

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

getc() returns the next character from the stream or returns EOF if the end-of-file has been reached or a read error has occurred.

"Wide Character and Byte Character Stream Orientation"

"fgetc"

"fputc"

"getchar"

"putchar"

#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");
	scanf("%s", filename);

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



	// read one character at a time until end-of-file
	while ( (c = getc(f)) != EOF)
		putchar(c);

	// close the file
	fclose(f);

	return 0;
}