FGETC
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME
fgetc, fgets, getc, getchar, ungetc - input of characters and strings
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int fgetc(FILE *stream);
char *fgets(char *s, int size, FILE *stream);
int getc(FILE *stream);
int getchar(void);
int ungetc(int c, FILE *stream);
DESCRIPTION
fgetc()
reads the next character from
stream
and returns it as an
unsigned char
cast to an
int,
or
EOF
on end of file or error.
getc()
is equivalent to
fgetc()
except that it may be implemented as a macro which evaluates
stream
more than once.
getchar()
is equivalent to
getc(stdin).
fgets()
reads in at most one less than
size
characters from
stream
and stores them into the buffer pointed to by
s.
Reading stops after an
EOF
or a newline.
If a newline is read, it is stored into the buffer.
A terminating null byte (aq\0aq)
is stored after the last character in the buffer.
ungetc()
pushes
c
back to
stream,
cast to
unsigned char,
where it is available for subsequent read operations.
Pushed-back characters
will be returned in reverse order; only one pushback is guaranteed.
Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with
calls to other input functions from the
stdio
library for the same input stream.
For nonlocking counterparts, see
unlocked_stdio(3).
RETURN VALUE
fgetc(),
getc()
and
getchar()
return the character read as an
unsigned char
cast to an
int
or
EOF
on end of file or error.
fgets()
returns
s
on success, and NULL
on error or when end of file occurs while no characters have been read.
ungetc()
returns
c
on success, or
EOF
on error.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
attributes(7).
| Interface | Attribute | Value
|
fgetc(),
fgets(),
getc(),
getchar(),
ungetc()
| Thread safety | MT-Safe
|
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99.
It is not advisable to mix calls to input functions from the
stdio
library with low-level calls to
read(2)
for the file descriptor associated with the input stream; the results
will be undefined and very probably not what you want.
SEE ALSO
read(2),
write(2),
ferror(3),
fgetwc(3),
fgetws(3),
fopen(3),
fread(3),
fseek(3),
getline(3),
gets(3),
getwchar(3),
puts(3),
scanf(3),
ungetwc(3),
unlocked_stdio(3),
feature_test_macros(7)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.13 of the Linux
man-pages
project.
A description of the project,
information about reporting bugs,
and the latest version of this page,
can be found at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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