The fgetc() file system function in PHP will return a single character read from a file that is opened using fopen() or fsockopen().
code
<?php
$file = fopen("myfile.txt", "r");
$character = fgetc($file);
fclose($file);
echo $character;
?>
OUTPUT H
My file contents are “Hello World”. As you can see it returned one single character from that file.
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