In the C programming language, fgets() is a function that is used to read a line of text from a file. It is defined in the stdio.h header file and has the following prototype:

Copy code

char *fgets(char *str, int n, FILE *stream);

The function takes three arguments:

• str: a pointer to a buffer where the read line of text will be stored
• n: the maximum number of characters to read, including the null character
• stream: a pointer to the FILE object that corresponds to the file to be read