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);
?>
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