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gzgetc

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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

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.

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

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

gzgetc() example

php

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