fgetc, fgets, getc, getchar, ungetc - input of characters and strings
#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);
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 ('\0') 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).