TITLE: reading a file into a string

(Source: comp.lang.c++, 22 Jan 2001)

CANFIELD: stevecanfield@my-deja.com

[snip]

> What is a better way to read an entire text file into a std::string?

KUEHL: "Dietmar Kuehl" <kuehl@ramsen.informatik.uni-konstanz.de>

   std::ifstream in("some.file");
   std::istreambuf_iterator<char> beg(in), end;
   std::string str(beg, end);

 or

   std::ifstream      in("some.file");
   std::ostringstream tmp;
   tmp << in.rdbuf();
   std::string str = tmp.str();



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