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fgetc

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

fgetcGets character from file pointer

Опис

fgetc(resource $stream): string|false

Gets a character from the given file pointer.

Параметри

stream

Вказівник на файл має бути дійсним та має вказувати на файл, успішно відкритий функцією fopen() або fsockopen() (та не закритий функцією fclose()).

Значення, що повертаються

Returns a string containing a single character read from the file pointed to by stream. Returns false on EOF.

Увага

Ця функція може повертати як логічне false, так і не логічне значення, яке прирівнюється до false. Докладніше про це описано в розділі Логічні типи даних. Для перевірки значення, яке повертає ця функція, використовується оператор ===.

Приклади

Приклад #1 A fgetc() example

<?php
$fp
= fopen('somefile.txt', 'r');
if (!
$fp) {
echo
'Could not open file somefile.txt';
}
while (
false !== ($char = fgetc($fp))) {
echo
"$char\n";
}
?>

Примітки

Зауваження: Ця функція є бінарно безпечною.

Прогляньте також

  • fread() - Binary-safe file read
  • fopen() - Opens file or URL
  • popen() - Opens process file pointer
  • fsockopen() - Open Internet or Unix domain socket connection
  • fgets() - Gets line from file pointer

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User Contributed Notes 5 notes

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alex at alexdemers dot me
15 years ago
The best and simplest way to get input from a user in the CLI with only PHP is to use fgetc() function with the STDIN constant:

<?php

echo 'Are you sure you want to quit? (y/n) ';
$input = fgetc(STDIN);

if (
$input == 'y')
{
exit(
0);
}

?>
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ktraas at gmail dot com (Kevin Traas)
15 years ago
I was using command-line PHP to create an interactive script and wanted the user to enter just one character of input - in response a Yes/No question. Had some trouble finding a way to do so using fgets(), fgetc(), various suggestions using readline(), popen(), etc. Came up with the following that works quite nicely:

$ans = strtolower( trim( `bash -c "read -n 1 -t 10 ANS ; echo \\\$ANS"` ) );
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sfinktah at php dot spamtrak dot org
13 years ago
To read a single key-press in CLI mode, you can either use ncurses (which will probably require additional modules for PHP) or get nasty with the *nix "/bin/stty" command)

<?php
function stty($options) {
exec($cmd = "/bin/stty $options", $output, $el);
$el AND die("exec($cmd) failed");
return
implode(" ", $output);
}

function
getchar($echo = false) {
$echo = $echo ? "" : "-echo";

# Get original settings
$stty_settings = preg_replace("#.*; ?#s", "", stty("--all"));

# Set new ones
stty("cbreak $echo");

# Get characters until a PERIOD is typed,
# showing their hexidecimal ordinal values.
printf("> ");
do {
printf("%02x ", ord($c = fgetc(STDIN)));
} while (
$c != '.');

# Return settings
stty($stty_settings);
}

getchar();
?>
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seraclimov at yandex dot ru
6 years ago
You can't just simple print separated characters of a text which is encoded in multibyte character set like this;
Because fgetc() will break each multibyte character on its every byte. Consider this example:

<?php
$path
= 'foo/cyrillic.txt';
$handle = fopen($path, 'rb');
while (
FALSE !== ($ch = fgetc($handle))) {
$curs = ftell($hanlde);
print
"[$curs:] $ch\n";
}
/* The result will be something like this:
<
[1]: <
[2]: h
[3]: 2
[4]: >
[5]: �
[6]: �
[7]: �
[8]: �
[9]: �
[10]: �
[11]:
[12]: �
[13]: �
[14]: �
[15]: �
[16]: �
*/
?>

I don't think this is the best, but it can be a workaround:
<?php
$path
= 'path/to/your/file.ext';

if (!
$handle = fopen($path, 'rb')) {
echo
"Can't open ($path) file';
exit;
}

$mbch = ''; // keeps the first byte of 2-byte cyrillic letters
while (FALSE !== (
$ch = fgetc($handle))) {
//check for the sign of 2-byte cyrillic letters
if (empty(
$mbch) && (FALSE !== array_search(ord($ch), Array(208,209,129)))) {
$mbch = $ch; // keep the first byte
continue;
}
$curs = ftell($handle);
print "
[$curs]: " . $mbch . $ch . PHP_EOL;
// or print "
[$curs]: $mbch$ch\n";
if (!empty(
$mbch)) $mbch = ''; // erase the byte after using
}
?>
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Anonymous
7 years ago
If you call fgetc(HANDLE) multiple times you must clear buffer before, thus get all unwanted chars to the new new line character.

while (true) {

//clear buffer - read all unwanted characters
while(fgetc(STDIN) != "\n");

//get first character from STDIN
$first = fgetc(STDIN);
}
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