Php/docs/function.gzgetc

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gzgetc

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

gzgetc — Get character from gz-file pointer

Description

gzgetc ( resource $stream ) : string|false

Returns a string containing a single (uncompressed) character read from the given gz-file pointer.

Parameters

stream

The gz-file pointer. It must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by gzopen().

Return Values

The uncompressed character or FALSE on EOF (unlike gzeof()).

Examples

Example #1 gzgetc() example

<?php$gz = gzopen('somefile.gz', 'r');while (!gzeof($gz)) {  echo gzgetc($gz);}gzclose($gz);?>

See Also

• gzopen() - Open gz-file
• gzgets() - Get line from file pointer