fgetc, fgets, getc, getchar, ungetc - input of characters and strings
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#include <stdio.h>
int fgetc(FILE *stream);
int getc(FILE *stream);
int getchar(void);
char *fgets(char s[restrict .size], int size, FILE *restrict stream);
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).
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, C89.
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.