not callable error

[bluphantom91 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 4 November 2016 at 02:59:49 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Friday, 4 November 2016 at 02:28:17 UTC, bluphantom91 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to finish up a group project but I am running into 
>> a small problem. I keep getting an error about fgetc not being 
>> callable. The purpose of my program is to count the number of 
>> characters in a file. Any bit of help is appreciated!
>>
>> Here's my code:
>>
>> import std.stdio;
>> import std.file;
>> import std.string;
>>
>
> Since you're using the C library stdio functions, you should 
> import core.stdc.stdio

ok I added that in, but now its giving me this:

  function core.stdc.stdio.getc (shared(_IO_FILE)* stream) is not 
callable using argument types (File)

Am I just using getc the wrong way?