Read file-contents into a string in C++ [duplicate]

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Like this:

#include <fstream>
#include <string>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{

  std::ifstream ifs("myfile.txt");
  std::string content( (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(ifs) ),
                       (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>()    ) );

  return 0;
}

The statement

  std::string content( (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(ifs) ),
                       (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>()    ) );

can be split into

std::string content;
content.assign( (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(ifs) ),
                (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>()    ) );

which is useful if you want to just overwrite the value of an existing std::string variable.

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