Read whole ASCII file into C++ std::string [duplicate]

Answer 1

Try one of these two methods:

string get_file_string(){
    std::ifstream ifs("path_to_file");
    return string((std::istreambuf_iterator(ifs)),
                  (std::istreambuf_iterator()));
}

string get_file_string2(){
    ifstream inFile;
    inFile.open("path_to_file");//open the input file

    stringstream strStream;
    strStream << inFile.rdbuf();//read the file
    return strStream.str();//str holds the content of the file
}