C Tutorial/stdio.h/fgetc
fgetc
Item Value Header
- include <stdio.h>
Declaration int fgetc(FILE *stream); Function gets the next character from the stream and increments the file position pointer. Return EOF: if the end of the file is reached.
- When working with binary files
- use feof() to check for the end of the file.
- use ferror() to check for file errors.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
FILE *fp;
char ch;
if((fp=fopen("test","r"))==NULL) {
printf("Cannot open file.\n");
exit(1);
}
while((ch=fgetc(fp)) != EOF) {
printf("%c", ch);
}
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}