fgetwc, getwc

 

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File input/output

Types and objects
FILE fpos_t      stdinstdoutstderr
Functions
File access fopenfopen_s (哋它亢11) freopenfreopen_s (哋它亢11) fwide (哋它亢95) setbuf setvbuf fclose fflush Direct input/output fread fwrite Unformatted input/output fgetc fgets fputc fputs getchar getsgets_s (until 哋它亢11)(哋它亢11) putchar puts ungetc fgetwcgetwc (哋它亢95)(哋它亢95) fgetws (哋它亢95) fputwcputwc (哋它亢95)(哋它亢95) fputws (哋它亢95) getwchar (哋它亢95) putwchar (哋它亢95) ungetwc (哋它亢95) Formatted input scanffscanfsscanfscanf_sfscanf_ssscanf_s (哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11) wscanffwscanfswscanfwscanf_sfwscanf_sswscanf_s (哋它亢95)(哋它亢95)(哋它亢95)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)     vscanfvfscanfvsscanfvscanf_svfscanf_svsscanf_s (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11) vwscanfvfwscanfvswscanfvwscanf_svfwscanf_svswscanf_s (哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢99)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)	Formatted output printffprintfsprintfsnprintfprintf_sfprintf_ssprintf_ssnprintf_s (哋它亢99)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11) wprintffwprintfswprintfwprintf_sfwprintf_sswprintf_ssnwprintf_s (哋它亢95)(哋它亢95)(哋它亢95)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)     vprintfvfprintfvsprintfvsnprintfvprintf_svfprintf_svsprintf_svsnprintf_s (哋它亢99)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11) vwprintfvfwprintfvswprintfvwprintf_svfwprintf_svswprintf_svsnwprintf_s (哋它亢95)(哋它亢95)(哋它亢95)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11)(哋它亢11) File positioning ftell fgetpos fseek fsetpos rewind Error handling clearerr feof ferror perror Operations on files remove rename tmpfiletmpfile_s (哋它亢11) tmpnamtmpnam_s (哋它亢11)

 

Defined in header <wchar.h>
wint_t fgetwc( FILE *stream );		(since 哋它亢95)
wint_t getwc( FILE *stream );		(since 哋它亢95)

Reads the next wide character from the given input stream. getwc() may be implemented as a macro and may evaluate stream more than once.

Parameters

stream

-

to read the wide character from

Return value

The next wide character from the stream or WEOF on failure.

If the failure has been caused by end-of-file condition, additionally sets the eof indicator (see feof()) on stream. If the failure has been caused by some other error, sets the error indicator (see ferror()) on stream.

If an encoding error occurred, additionally sets errno to EILSEQ.

Example

Run this code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <wchar.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <locale.h>
 
int main(void)
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
    FILE *fp = fopen("fgetwc.dat", "w");
    if(!fp) {
        perror("Can't open file for writing");
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    fputs("кошка\n", fp);
    fclose(fp);
 
    fp = fopen("fgetwc.dat", "r");
    if(!fp) {
        perror("Can't open file for reading");
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    wint_t wc;
    errno = 0;
    while ((wc = fgetwc(fp)) != WEOF)
        putwchar(wc);
 
    if (ferror(fp)) {
        if (errno == EILSEQ)
            puts("Character encoding error while reading.");
        else
            puts("I/O error when reading");
    } else if (feof(fp))
        puts("End of file reached successfully");
 
    fclose(fp);
}

Output:

кошка

References

• 哋它亢17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):

• 7.29.3.1 The fgetwc function (p: 307-308)

• 7.29.3.6 The getwc function (p: 309)

• 哋它亢11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

• 7.29.3.1 The fgetwc function (p: 421-422)

• 7.29.3.6 The getwc function (p: 424)

• 哋它亢99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

• 7.24.3.1 The fgetwc function (p: 367)

• 7.24.3.6 The getwc function (p: 369)

See also

fgetcgetc	gets a character from a file stream (function)
fgetws (哋它亢95)	gets a wide string from a file stream (function)
fputwcputwc (哋它亢95)	writes a wide character to a file stream (function)
ungetwc (哋它亢95)	puts a wide character back into a file stream (function)