Loading a file into a vector

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If you want to avoid reading char by char:

if (!file.eof() && !file.fail())
{
    file.seekg(0, std::ios_base::end);
    std::streampos fileSize = file.tellg();
    vec.resize(fileSize);

    file.seekg(0, std::ios_base::beg);
    file.read(&vec[0], fileSize);
}

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