..  _fgetb:

FGETB
=====

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| Syntax   |  FGETB [(#channel)]                                               |
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| Location |  BTool                                                            |
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This function reads a single byte (character) from a specified
channel (default #1) and returns its numeric value.

**Example**

::

    100 PRINT "Please press any key..."
    110 CLEAR: c = FGETB
    120 PRINT "You pressed '";CHR$(c);"', ";
    130 PRINT "which is code"!c!"($";HEX$(c,8);")."

**CROSS-REFERENCE**

The Toolkit II equivalent is :ref:`bget`. See also
:ref:`fputb`!