On Aug 8, 7:15 am, arnuld<sunr...@invalid.address> wrote:
I want to read a file into std::string. I am basically a C Programmer so
it was quite hard for me to understand how to do it in C++. I did C++
long time back (if you guys remember my name but I do remember Shiva and
Victor Bazarov and others).
I googled for it and this is the best what I could come up with. Do you
guys have any suggestion for improvement ?
Maybe this has already been mentioned, but I've done it this way
several times:
std::ifstream inFile("reference.cpp" /*, std::ios::binary*/);
if (!inFile.is_open())
{
std::cerr<< "Error reading file."<< std::endl;
return;
}
const std::string fileContents
= std::string(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( inFile ),
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>( ));
inFile.close();
Now the fileContents variable contains the contents of
"reference.cpp", while still allowing for the possibility that the
file might not successfully open.
Cheers,
-- Jean-Luc