I believe GCC for C programs has ungetc which puts a character back in stdin and probably moves the pointer back 1. I need FUNGETC which would put a character back in in FILE * fp and move the pointer back 1. GCC does not seem to have this one. Anyone know how I would go about creating a function to do this? I might be able to get away with using fgetc in a program to preliminary get the string from fp and just move the pointer back for the big string when I form smaller strings. The reason I want this is to move the pointer back if I encounter valid data after getting a CR or LF (\r or \n) before the next valid read after I process the data I now have. Thank you. Alvin...

Just read the documentation of ungetc. (Note: This function is not specific to gcc or glibc.)
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/c_sta...ion_ungetc.htm

Note: you can unget only one character in each FILE. For seeking back, use functions fgetpos/fsetpos.

Why do you need to put the character back, just fseek(file,-1L,SEEK_CUR)

ungetc is more flexible as not all FILEs are seekable (pipes and sockets aren't)

THanks GUYS for your help!

I was once writing a little recursive-descent compiler that needed this sort of thing, and it always needed to go back only-one character. So, I simply wrote that functionality into my homebrew getchar/ungetchar routines: "ungetchar" simply set a global boolean flag which caused "getchar" to un-set the flag and return the same character as before, instead of reading a new character from the source. Problem solved.

(As a bug-check, if "ungetchar" found the flag to be already-raised, it threw an exception.)