Reading and writing a std::vector into a file correctly

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Try using an ostream_iterator/ostreambuf_iterator, istream_iterator/istreambuf_iterator, and the STL copy methods:

#include <algorithm>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>

#include <fstream> // looks like we need this too (edit by π)

std::string path("/some/path/here");

const int DIM = 6;
int array[DIM] = {1,2,3,4,5,6};
std::vector<int> myVector(array, array + DIM);
std::vector<int> newVector;

std::ofstream FILE(path, std::ios::out | std::ofstream::binary);
std::copy(myVector.begin(), myVector.end(), std::ostreambuf_iterator<char>(FILE));

std::ifstream INFILE(path, std::ios::in | std::ifstream::binary);
std::istreambuf_iterator iter(INFILE);
std::copy(iter.begin(), iter.end(), std::back_inserter(newVector));

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