gzgetc
Name
gzgetc — Get a character from a compressed file.
Synopsis
string gzgetc
(zp);
int zp: File pointer
Returns
A character on success or FALSE on failure
Description
This function returns a string with a single character in
it. If the file pointer is at the end of the file then
FALSE is returned if it is invalid it returns NULL.
Version
PHP 3, PHP 4 >= 4.0b1
Example
Example 1450. Print the
contents of a compressed file
$gz = gzopen('myfile.gz','r');
while (!gzeof($gz)) {
echo gzgetc($gz) . '<BR>';
}
gzclose($gz);
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