The ungetc()
function pushes a character onto an input stream. This pushed character can then be read by subsequent calls to functions that read from that stream. However, the ungetc()
function has serious limitations. A call to a file positioning function, such as fseek()
, will discard any character pushed back by ungetc()
. Also, the C standard only guarantees that the pushing back of one character will succeed. Therefore, subsequent calls to ungetc()
must be separated by a call to a read function or a file positioning function (which will discard any data pushed by ungetc()
). If more than one character needs to be pushed by ungetc()
, then an update stream fgetpos() and fsetpos() should be used before and after reading the data instead of calling pushing it back with ungetc()
.
Non-Compliant Code Example
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