Name
getc
Synopsis
getc filehandle
Returns the next byte from the input file attached
to filehandle
. At end-of-file, it
returns a null string. If filehandle
is
omitted, the function reads from STDIN. This operator is very
slow, but is occasionally useful for single-character input from
the keyboard.
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