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GETS (3)

input of characters and strings

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>
  int fgetc(FILE * stream );  

  char *fgets(char * s , int  size , FILE * stream );  

  int getc(FILE * stream );  

  int getchar(void);  

  char *gets(char * s );  

  int ungetc(int  c , FILE * stream );

DESCRIPTION

fgetc()

stream

unsigned char

int ,

EOF

getc() is equivalent to fgetc() except that it may be implemented as a macro which evaluates stream more than once.

getchar() is equivalent to getc( stdin ) \fR.

gets() reads a line from stdin into the buffer pointed to by s until either a terminating newline or EOF , which it replaces with '\e0' . No check for buffer overrun is performed (see BUGS below).

fgets() reads in at most one less than size characters from stream and stores them into the buffer pointed to by s . Reading stops after an EOF or a newline. If a newline is read, it is stored into the buffer. A '\e0' is stored after the last character in the buffer.

ungetc() pushes c back to stream , cast to unsigned char where it is available for subsequent read operations. Pushed - back characters will be returned in reverse order; only one pushback is guaranteed.

Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with calls to other input functions from the stdio library for the same input stream.

RETURN VALUES

fgetc() , getc() and getchar()

unsigned char

int

EOF

gets() and fgets() return s on success, and NULL on error or when end of file occurs while no characters have been read.

ungetc() returns c on success, or EOF on error.

CONFORMING TO

ANSI - C, POSIX.1

BUGS

gets()

fgets()

It is not advisable to mix calls to input functions from the stdio library with low - level calls to read() for the file descriptor associated with the input stream; the results will be undefined and very probably not what you want.