Fgetc reads a single character from the current position of the specified stream and increments the file pointer to the next character; fgetchar reads from stdin.

#include <stdio.h>

int fgetc(FILE *stream);
int fgetchar(void);

#include <wchar.h>

wint_t fgetwc(FILE *stream);

Parameters

stream

Pointer to FILE structure.

Remarks

fgetchar is equivalent to:

fgetc(stdin)

fgetc and fgetchar are identical to getc and getchar, but they are functions, not macros.

fgetwc is the wide-characetr version of fgetc and returns the character as a wint_t.

Return Values

The integer value of the character read.

Success.

fegtc and fgetchar return EOF on error or end-of-file. fgetwc returns WEOF on error or end-of-file.

Since EOF/WEOF is a legal integer value, use feof or ferror to distinguish between an error and an end-of-file condition.

Generic Text Routines

Requirements