getc

Reads the next character from the given input stream.

Example: Read chars from the stream:

public static int main (string[] args) {
	// Opens "foo.txt" for reading ("r")
	FileStream stream = FileStream.open ("filestream.vala", "r");
	assert (stream != null);

	// Char by char:
	int c = 0;
	while ((c = stream.getc ()) >= 0) {
		stdout.putc ((char) c);
	}

	return 0;
}

valac --pkg glib-2.0 GLib.FileStream.getc.vala

Returns:

next character from the stream or GLib.FileStream.EOF if an error has occurred or the end of file has been reached.