difference between fgets and fgetl

I was studying fgets and fgetl and i totally did not understand the difference between these two commands. Can u explain it and give a small example? Thanx in advance.

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Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

fgets() leaves the end-of-line characters in the string that is returned; fgetl() removes them from what is returned.

For example, if we let \r\n represent the end-of-line stored, then if the line in the file is

This is a test.\r\n

then fgets() would return

'This is a test.\r\n'

Not literal '\' 'r' '\' 'n' but the characte-return and end-of-line character,

['This is a test.' char(13) char(10)]

which is

sprintf('This is a test.\r\n')

On the other hand, fgetl() for the same line would return just

'This is a test.'

The only reason I have ever had to use fgets() was on systems old enough that they did not provide an fgetl() call. It isn't that I cannot think of any reason to use it, but in those few cases, it almost always turns out to be better to read as binary instead of as text.