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+ <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">fgetc, getc</h1> <table class="t-dcl-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc-header"> <th> Defined in header <code>&lt;stdio.h&gt;</code> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl"> <td> <pre data-language="c">int fgetc( FILE *stream );</pre>
+</td> <td> (1) </td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> </tr> <tr class="t-dcl"> <td> <pre data-language="c">int getc( FILE *stream );</pre>
+</td> <td> (2) </td> <td class="t-dcl-nopad"> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="t-li1">
+<span class="t-li">1)</span> Reads the next character from the given input stream.</div> <div class="t-li1">
+<span class="t-li">2)</span> Same as <code>fgetc</code>, except that if <code>getc</code> is implemented as a macro, it may evaluate stream more than once, so the corresponding argument should never be an expression with side effects.</div> <h3 id="Parameters"> Parameters</h3> <table class="t-par-begin"> <tr class="t-par"> <td> stream </td> <td> - </td> <td> to read the character from </td>
+</tr>
+</table> <h3 id="Return_value"> Return value</h3> <p>On success, returns the obtained character as an <code>unsigned char</code> converted to an <code>int</code>. On failure, returns <code><a href="../io" title="c/io">EOF</a></code>.</p>
+<p>If the failure has been caused by end-of-file condition, additionally sets the <i>eof</i> indicator (see <code><a href="feof" title="c/io/feof">feof()</a></code>) on <code>stream</code>. If the failure has been caused by some other error, sets the <i>error</i> indicator (see <code><a href="ferror" title="c/io/ferror">ferror()</a></code>) on <code>stream</code>.</p>
+<h3 id="Example"> Example</h3> <div class="t-example"> <div class="c source-c"><pre data-language="c">#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ const char* fname = "/tmp/unique_name.txt"; // or tmpnam(NULL);
+ int is_ok = EXIT_FAILURE;
+
+ FILE* fp = fopen(fname, "w+");
+ if (!fp) {
+ perror("File opening failed");
+ return is_ok;
+ }
+ fputs("Hello, world!\n", fp);
+ rewind(fp);
+
+ int c; // note: int, not char, required to handle EOF
+ while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) // standard C I/O file reading loop
+ putchar(c);
+
+ if (ferror(fp))
+ puts("I/O error when reading");
+ else if (feof(fp)) {
+ puts("End of file is reached successfully");
+ is_ok = EXIT_SUCCESS;
+ }
+
+ fclose(fp);
+ remove(fname);
+ return is_ok;
+}</pre></div> <p>Possible output:</p>
+<div class="text source-text"><pre data-language="c">Hello, world!
+End of file is reached successfully</pre></div> </div> <h3 id="References"> References</h3> <ul>
+<li> C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018): </li>
+<ul>
+<li> 7.21.7.1 The fgetc function (p: 240-241) </li>
+<li> 7.21.7.5 The getc function (p: 242) </li>
+</ul>
+<li> C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011): </li>
+<ul>
+<li> 7.21.7.1 The fgetc function (p: 330) </li>
+<li> 7.21.7.5 The getc function (p: 332) </li>
+</ul>
+<li> C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999): </li>
+<ul>
+<li> 7.19.7.1 The fgetc function (p: 296) </li>
+<li> 7.19.7.5 The getc function (p: 297-298) </li>
+</ul>
+<li> C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990): </li>
+<ul>
+<li> 4.9.7.1 The fgetc function </li>
+<li> 4.9.7.5 The getc function </li>
+</ul>
+</ul> <h3 id="See_also"> See also</h3> <table class="t-dsc-begin"> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="getchar" title="c/io/getchar"> <span class="t-lines"><span>getchar</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> reads a character from <code><a href="std_streams" title="c/io/std streams">stdin</a></code> <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="gets" title="c/io/gets"> <span class="t-lines"><span>gets</span><span>gets_s</span></span></a></div>
+<div><span class="t-lines"><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-until-c11">(removed in C11)</span></span><span><span class="t-mark-rev t-since-c11">(C11)</span></span></span></div> </td> <td> reads a character string from <code>stdin</code> <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="fputc" title="c/io/fputc"> <span class="t-lines"><span>fputc</span><span>putc</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> writes a character to a file stream <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td> <div><a href="ungetc" title="c/io/ungetc"> <span class="t-lines"><span>ungetc</span></span></a></div> </td> <td> puts a character back into a file stream <br> <span class="t-mark">(function)</span> </td>
+</tr> <tr class="t-dsc"> <td colspan="2"> <span><a href="https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fgetc" title="cpp/io/c/fgetc">C++ documentation</a></span> for <code>fgetc, getc</code> </td>
+</tr> </table> <div class="_attribution">
+ <p class="_attribution-p">
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+</div>