getc reads a single character from a stream and increments the associated file pointer to point to the next character; getchar reads from stdin.

#include <stdio.h>

int getc(FILE *stream);
int getchar(void);

#include <wchar.h>

wint_t getwc(FILE *stream);
wint_t getwchar(void);

Parameters

stream

Pointer to FILE structure.

Remarks

Getc and getchar are identical to fgetc and fgetchar, but are macros rather than functions.

The getchar macro is identical to:

getc(stdin)

Return Values

The integer value of the character read.

Success.

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

Failure.

Generic Text Routines

Requirements