Line-Oriented Input

fgetl (fid len)

Built-in Function

Read characters from a file stopping after a newline, or EOF, or len characters have been read. The characters read excluding the possible trailing newline are returned as a string. If len is omitted fgetl reads until the next newline character. If there are no more characters to read fgetl returns -1.

fgets (fid len)

Built-in Function

Read characters from a file stopping after a newline, or EOF, or len characters have been read. The characters read including the possible trailing newline are returned as a string. If len is omitted fgets reads until the next newline character. If there are no more characters to read fgets returns -1.