GETS(3) Linux Programmer’s Manual GETS(3)
NAME
fgetc, fgets, getc, getchar, gets, ungetc - input of characters and stringsSYNOPSIS
#includeint 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() reads the next character from stream and returns it as an unsigned char cast to an int, or EOF
on end of file or error.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).
gets() reads a line from stdin into the buffer pointed to by s until either a terminating newline or
EOF, which it replaces with '\0'. 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 '\0' 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 guaran-
teed.Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with calls to other input func-
tions from the stdio library for the same input stream.For non-locking counterparts, see unlocked_stdio(3).
RETURN VALUE
fgetc(), getc() and getchar() return the character read as an unsigned char cast to an int or EOF on
end of file or error.gets() and fgets() return s on success, and NULL on error or when end of file occurs while no charac-
ters have been read.ungetc() returns c on success, or EOF on error.
CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. LSB deprecates gets(). POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gets().BUGS
Never use gets(). Because it is impossible to tell without knowing the data in advance how many char-
acters gets() will read, and because gets() will continue to store characters past the end of the
buffer, it is extremely dangerous to use. It has been used to break computer security. Use fgets()
instead.It is not advisable to mix calls to input functions from the stdio library with low-level calls to
read(2) for the file descriptor associated with the input stream; the results will be undefined and
very probably not what you want.SEE ALSO
read(2), write(2), ferror(3), fgetwc(3), fgetws(3), fopen(3), fread(3), fseek(3), getline(3),
getwchar(3), puts(3), scanf(3), ungetwc(3), unlocked_stdio(3)COLOPHON
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