fgetwc

 

C

Language

Type support

Dynamic memory management

Error handling

Program utilities

Date and time utilities

Strings library

Algorithms

Numerics

Input/output support

Localization support

Thread support (C11)

Atomic operations (C11)

 

File input/output

Functions
File access
fopen freopen fclose fflush	fwide setbuf setvbuf
Direct input/output
fread
fwrite
Unformatted input/output
fgetc fgets fputc fputs getchar gets putchar puts ungetc	fgetwc fgetws fputwc fputws getwchar putwchar ungetwc
Formatted input/output
scanf fscanf sscanf vscanf vfscanf vsscanf (C99) (C99) (C99) printf fprintf sprintf snprintf (C99) vprintf vfprintf vsprintf vsnprintf (C99)	wscanf fwscanf swscanf vwscanf vfwscanf vswscanf (C99) (C99) (C99) wprintf fwprintf swprintf vwprintf vfwprintf vswprintf
File positioning
ftell
fgetpos
fseek
fsetpos
rewind
Error handling
clearerr
feof
ferror
perror
Operations on files
remove
rename
tmpfile
tmpnam

 

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

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

next wide character from the stream or WEOF if an error has occurred or the end of file has been reached. If an encoding error occurred, errno is set to EILSEQ.

See also

fgetc getc	gets a character from a file stream (function)
fgetws	gets a wide string from a file stream (function)
fputwc putwc	writes a wide character to a file stream (function)
ungetwc	puts a wide character back into a file stream (function)