using fstream to read every character including spaces and newline

Asked 2008-09-22T19:26:06.103

I wanted to use fstream to read a txt file.

I am using inFile >> characterToConvert, but the problem is that this omits any spaces and newline.

I am writing an encryption program so I need to include the spaces and newlines.

What would be the proper way to go about accomplishing this?

c++ newline spaces fstream

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ifstream ifile(path);
std::string contents((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(ifile)), std::istreambuf_iterator<char>());
ifile.close();

answered 2012-07-21T08:58:32.680